Kansas is like the portside's Shangri-La. It's this magical land that would be permanently happy and harmonious if they just listened to the portside. And every cough, sneeze or fever launches thousands of concerns about a mystical Kansas that is being magically controlled by starboard ogres.
Kansas is not doing terribly:
Personal income in Kansas remains around the national mean, it's employment to population ratio remains above the national average, it punches above its weight in developing non-liberal arts graduates, and it below the national averages in crime.
For whatever cock-ups are cooking in Kansas, they are treading at a slightly better pace than other states in the union and are showing decent numbers under the hood.
Kansas's biggest problem remains past overspecialization and a subsequent failure to develop more urban centers. Now you have approximately half of non-metro Kansas growing but the other half depopulating at a rapid pace. No state policy short of everyone holding their breath and passing out so they don't have to think about it is going to look good with these settlement changes.
This, however, was a problem that would've best been attacked between 1850 to 1950. I too think it a good idea to get in our time machine and tell Kansans to shape up and don't put all your eggs into farms and farm-related businesses. But alas! Too much other stuff to do first with that handy-dandy time machine.
At some point, they will need to hit rock bottom and then it will be important to cauterize and reassess the emigration/money drain going on. Until then, its a lot of politicians on hampster wheels- the only way you are going to do anything about it right now is to outlaw newer farming methods and technologies....and we'll get right on that after we use the time machine to warn the Kansans of their future peril.