Governor's Cup

Monday, July 17, 2017

Gov. Pete Ricketts presents a signed copy of Site Selection Magazine to American Agriculture Laboratory owners Kevin and Christine Grooms in McCook during the final stop of last week’s “Thank You Tour” recognizing businesses that helped give Nebraska the most economic development projects per capita in 2016. Above right, he chats with laboratory technician Karen Stewart, in her 27th year with the business, having started with founders Bob and Connie Olsen. Nebraska had more capital investment projects than North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas combined, Ricketts said, thanks to Nebraska’s business-friendly regulatory environment, high labor force participation rate, quality workforce, competitive power rates and highly-rated infrastructure which makes the state attractive to job creators and entrepreneurs. He also pointed to efforts to encourage construction of workforce housing as an important effort for rural Nebraska.

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