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Agriculture

News related to the agricultural industry.

Nebraska Soybean Management Field Days set Aug. 11-14 (08/05/09)
LINCOLN -- "Growing Nebraska's Future" is the theme of the 11th annual Soybean Management Field Days Aug. 11-14. The event will focus on staying competitive in a global marketplace, increasing profits and meeting the world's growing food and energy needs starting right here in Nebraska...

Producers: Monday deadline for FSA nominations (07/28/09)
MCCOOK -- The Farm Service Agency in would like to remind farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers that they have only a few days left to meet the Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, deadline to nominate eligible candidates to serve on local FSA county committees...

Hay harvesting permits available (07/02/09)
In its second year, the program that enables Nebraska landowners to receive hay harvesting permits is in effect. These permits are for the harvesting of hay from the right-of-way of state maintained highways. Interstate highways and freeways are excluded from the program. Landowners whose land abuts the state right-of-way will have the first opportunity to...

Nebraska leads nation in irrigated acreage (06/19/09)
LINCOLN, Neb. -- While the number of irrigated acres is dropping in many parts of the country, it continues to rise in Nebraska, which now ranks first in the nation. Some areas of the state are over-irrigated, however, and significant limitations on future irrigation are looming, said Bruce Johnson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln agricultural economist...

Foreign disease response (04/30/09)
Area officials listen to a presenter from Kirkwood Community College in Iowa during a Foreign Animal Disease Response workshop recently in McCook, sponsored by the Southwest Nebraska Public Health District and the Emergency Managers of the Southwest Region. ...