Posted: 05/16/12 19:00
A three-day camp for youth interested in improving their knowledge of livestock evaluation will be hosted May 25-27 at the University of Nebraska Coll...
Posted: 05/16/12 18:00
Lothrop Science and Technology Magnet Center in Omaha, a Nebraska Project Learning Tree (PLT) Greenschool, is among the nation's first-ever Green Ribb...
Posted: 05/16/12 17:00
In response to a letter to Senate leadership today encouraging "timely and open debate" on the recently introduced Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs A...
Posted: 05/16/12 16:00
– Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) today released the following statement after it was announced Behlen Manufacturing of Columbus, NE was recognized as...
Posted: 05/16/12 15:00
After a decade of discussions, China, Japan and South Korea have agreed to soon launch negotiations on a three-way free trade pact. Officials say...
Posted: 05/16/12 14:00
Debbie Lyons-Blythe of White City, Kansas, is Monsanto's America's Farmers Mom of the Year 2012. Lyons-Blythe was nominated by her children, Megh...
Posted: 05/16/12 13:00
According to updated research conducted by economics professors at the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University, America's growing use o...
Posted: 05/16/12 12:00
The U.S. – Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement is now in force. According to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, - as of Tuesday, U.S. agricultural exporter...
Posted: 05/16/12 11:00
Environmental groups Waterkeeper, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, have demanded a court order the Environmental Protec...
Posted: 05/16/12 10:00
According to The Washington Post, across the U.S. economy, anxiety is rising about the potential for widespread disruptions after the November el...
Posted: 05/16/12 09:00
The House Agriculture Committee continues key farm bill hearings this week, and as it does a dozen farm groups have sent a letter to House Ag Chairman...
Posted: 05/16/12 07:00
LightSquared filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. The company failed to reach a debt restructuring deal with its creditors. The compa...
Posted: 05/16/12 04:55
It was 150 years ago Tuesday when President Abraham Lincoln established the U. S. Department of Agriculture. As the department and its 30th Secretary...
Posted: 05/16/12 00:00
What happens to U.S. soybeans after farmers unload their trucks at local grain elevators or processors? A group of U.S. soybean farmers are about to f...
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Celebrates USDA's 150th Year of Service, Highlights Ways the 'Every Day, Every Way' Department Works for American People
Posted: 05/15/12 23:00
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today marked the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and highlighted the positive impact that US...
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Celebrates USDA's 150th Year of Service, Highlights Ways the 'Every Day, Every Way' Department Works for American People
Posted: 05/15/12 22:00
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today marked the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and highlighted the positive impact that U...
Posted: 05/15/12 21:00
"As the U.S. Department of Agriculture celebrates the 150th anniversary of its founding today, America's farmer-owned cooperatives join in marking the...
Posted: 05/15/12 20:00
Debbie Lyons-Blythe, White City, Kansas, is Monsanto's America's Farmers Mom of the Year 2012.
Lyons-Blythe was nominated by her ...
Posted: 05/15/12 19:00
. In honor of today's milestone 150th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the American Soybean Association (ASA) offers...
Posted: 05/15/12 18:00
In a huge victory for U.S. wheat farmers, the United States and Colombia officially implemented on Tuesday a free trade agreement (FTA) first signed i...
Posted: 05/15/12 17:30
The Box Butte County Fair "Raise the Roof" committee, which is soliciting funds to build a new livestock barn recently received an additional $8,000 i...
Posted: 05/15/12 17:00
Strong farm incomes continued to fuel demand for Tenth District farmland, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's quarterly Survey of A...
Posted: 05/15/12 16:30
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is working with a bipartisan group of senators, as well as with other farm and agriculture organizations...
Posted: 05/15/12 16:30
While Nebraska has a Agri-Women Chapter, most women in western Nebraska are unaware of the organization, because most of the activities take place in ...
Posted: 05/15/12 16:00
"The American Farm Bureau Federation congratulates Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and USDA on the department's 150th anniversary. President Abraham Li...
Public Meetings with Ex GIPSA Chief Scheduled for Bismarck, N. D., May 16, and Ft. Pierre, S. D., May 18
Posted: 05/15/12 15:30
J. Dudley Butler, former Administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), ...
Posted: 05/15/12 15:00
Winter wheat fields across Kansas are turning color, in still another sign that this year's harvest will be especially early.
The Kansas Agri...
Posted: 05/15/12 14:30
Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) Director Greg Ibach today offered his congratulations to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) o...
Posted: 05/15/12 14:00
Nebraska farmers are almost done with planting the corn crop and are making good process on finishing the soybeans.
The U.S. Department of Ag...
Posted: 05/15/12 13:00
The maker of the beef product dubbed ``pink
slime'' by critics says it's laying off 86 employees from its South
Dakota corporate office, ...
Posted: 05/15/12 12:00
A June 11 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension field to table tour will give educators, nutritionists, health professionals, farmers and the publi...
Posted: 05/15/12 11:00
Five Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) have initiated a voluntary water planning process with the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (Departmen...
Posted: 05/15/12 10:00
Arizona Representative Jeff Flake has introduced the Commonsense Legislative Exceptional Events Reform - or CLEER - Act. Flake says exceeding Cle...
Posted: 05/15/12 07:00
Enrollment for the 2012 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program and the Average Crop Revenue Election Program ends June 1st. USDA Farm Service Agency Admi...
Posted: 05/15/12 04:58
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn will try to amend the Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill in order to cap crop insurance premium subsidies. It's been...
Posted: 05/15/12 04:46
According to European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht - the U.S. and EU are making progress on a trade deal. In fact - the details may be spel...
Posted: 05/15/12 00:00
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement about the U.S-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, or Colombia TPA, which enters into fo...
Posted: 05/14/12 23:00
Most of Washington's 2011 apple harvest has been sold and growers say prices for the near-record crop have been good for them.
A vice preside...
Posted: 05/14/12 22:00
Republican Sen. John McCain wants the Obama
administration to ramp up its free trade agenda in Asia and suspend
U.S. economic sanctions ...
Posted: 05/14/12 21:00
Kansas State University has hired an internationally known pharmacology expert to direct a center at the university involved with improving animal hea...
Posted: 05/14/12 20:00
The Supreme Court says a farming family has to
pay tax on the bankruptcy sale of their farm.
The high court on Monday voted 5-4...
Posted: 05/14/12 19:00
Nebraska Cattlemen are welcoming people to the hometown area of their President Jim Ramm for this year's Nebraska Cattlemen Midyear Meeting. Jim woul...
Posted: 05/14/12 18:00
Wheat fields in central and western Kansas could use at least one last good rain before harvest.
"Wheat is under stress in much of western Ka...
Posted: 05/14/12 17:00
Students from 48 Kansas communities have been selected to share in $41,150 in scholarships being awarded by the Kansas 4-H Foundation.
The sc...
Posted: 05/14/12 16:00
Horse owners may be staying home for the beginning of the horse show season. Similar to a year ago, the deadly equine herpes virus is making a come b...
Posted: 05/14/12 16:00
Salina, Kansas, May 9, 2012-State Conservationist Eric B. Banks announced the launch of a new National Water Quality Initiative committed to improving...
Posted: 05/14/12 15:00
The South Central Livestock Judging Clinic and Contest is scheduled for Thursday - May 24, 2012 at the Webster County Fairgrounds in Bladen, NE. Thi...
Posted: 05/14/12 14:30
The White House says a $2 billion trading blunder by JPMorgan Chase shows the continued need for rules that protect the taxpayer when Wall Street make...
Posted: 05/14/12 14:00
- BroadMap is introducing a variety of new and exciting online tools. A webinar May 16 will highlight some of these efforts.
"Nebraska Broadb...
Posted: 05/14/12 13:00
"DNA Technology: Where we've been, where we are, and where we're headed" will be the topic of a June 27 conference at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Ce...
Posted: 05/14/12 12:00
As first steps go, participants agreed, the inaugural University of Nebraska Rural Futures Conference was a big one, helping to set the stage for crea...
Posted: 05/14/12 11:00
An essay contest about the ethics of eating meat drew heat from meat eaters and vegans alike. But it also garnered about three-thousand entries. ...
Posted: 05/14/12 10:00
U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack will commemorate USDA's 150th anniversary Tuesday (May 15). President Abraham Lincoln founded the department in 186...
Posted: 05/14/12 09:00
Fifty young people representing 24 states have been selected by the National FFA Organization to participate in the 2012 New Century Farmer program. I...
Posted: 05/14/12 07:00
National Farmers Union wants those discussing the Trans-Pacific Partnership to ensure any multilateral trade agreement includes benefits for U.S. agri...
Posted: 05/14/12 04:52
Economic Policy Analyst with the Truth About Trade and Technology Ross Korves believes there are four key reasons U.S. agricultural groups should pay ...
Posted: 05/13/12 18:00
Today, Thursday, May 10, Justin Doerr, a beginning farmer and military veteran from Plainview, NE, traveled to Washington D.C. to participate and tes...
Posted: 05/13/12 17:00
U.S. pork exports finished the first quarter 8 percent higher in volume (598,058 metric tons) and 20 percent higher in value ($1.66 billion) than...
Posted: 05/13/12 15:00
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, the Center for Rural Affairs will release a new report entitled, The Affordable Care Act: Real Help for Real Rural People, t...
Posted: 05/13/12 13:00
The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) held their spring meetings in St. Louis, Mo. The purpose of this event was to conduct the Board of Direct...
Posted: 05/13/12 10:00
Looking at Kansas wheat across the state during the first few days of May members of the Wheat Quality Council (WQC) labeled the crop in "pretty go...
Posted: 05/12/12 22:00
The National FFA Organization has selected 50 outstanding young people to participate in the 2012 New Century Farmer program. This exclusive, highly c...
Posted: 05/12/12 20:00
Property owners have until June 15 to apply for financial assistance in improving their land in one of four impaired Nebraska watersheds.
The...
Posted: 05/12/12 18:00
"Activities on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture (NCTA) campus in Curtis will focus on the many d...
Posted: 05/12/12 17:00
Each month - USDA holds Virtual Office Hours. It gives stakeholders a chance to directly engage with USDA leadership and subject matter experts t...
Posted: 05/12/12 15:00
The renewal of support from Archer Daniels Midland Company in the amount of $10,000 has planted a seed for continued program enhancements for the Kans...
Posted: 05/12/12 13:00
Today, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Credit held a...
Posted: 05/12/12 10:00
Witnesses at a Thursday farm bill hearing of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight and Credit expressed how impo...
Posted: 05/11/12 22:00
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012. The measure cuts 35.8-billion dollars from n...
Posted: 05/11/12 18:00
– Attendees were urged to open the barn doors and showcase the importance of modern food production at the Animal Agriculture Alliance's 2012 Stakehol...
Posted: 05/11/12 17:00
Food Seminars International is working to counter the misinformation circulating about Lean Finely Textured Beef with a video that separates...
Posted: 05/11/12 16:00
A U.N. food agency says countries have endorsed
voluntary guidelines aimed at combating `'land grabbing'' that
hurts small-scale farming by th...
Posted: 05/11/12 15:00
Kara Ostrand is the recipient of the 2012 Bill Pedersen Agriculture Scholarship offered by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension in Custer Coun...
Posted: 05/11/12 13:00
The Upper Big Blue NRD is finishing the tree planting season and there are several varieties of trees and shrubs left in our inventory that were not p...
Posted: 05/11/12 10:00
The U.S. Grains Council reports that Japanese imports of DDGS surged 31-percent ahead of 2010 levels in 2011. U.S. market share climbed from 89-p...
Posted: 05/11/12 09:00
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012. The measure cuts 35.8-billion dollars from nutrit...
Posted: 05/11/12 07:00
Food Seminars International is working to counter the misinformation circulating about Lean Finely Textured Beef with a video that separates myths and...
Posted: 05/11/12 04:51
The U.S. Grains Council reports that Japanese imports of DDGS surged 31-percent ahead of 2010 levels in 2011. U.S. market share climbed from 89-percen...
Posted: 05/10/12 23:00
If the annual Wheat Quality Tour forecast is correct, the 2012 Kansas wheat crop will total 403.6 million bushels. The estimate represents a dramatic ...
Posted: 05/10/12 22:00
London and Amsterdam were host this spring to one of the world's most unique annual agriculture meetings, the Nuffield International Farming Scholars...
Posted: 05/10/12 21:00
Jeff Gerhart, chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and chairman of the Bank of Newman Grove in Neb., testified today before...
Posted: 05/10/12 20:00
ON MONDAY, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will host the May USDA Virtual Office Hours on Twitter. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will sit down t...
ICBA Chairman Testifies, Says Changes Must Be Made to USDA's Farm & Business Guaranteed Loan Program
Posted: 05/10/12 19:00
Jeff Gerhart, chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and chairman of the Bank of Newman Grove in Neb., testified today before...
Posted: 05/10/12 18:30
The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects a record corn crop this year, topping the previous high by 11 percent.
That could be good news fo...
Posted: 05/10/12 18:00
The American Bankers Association testified today before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Credit of the House Committee on Ag...
Posted: 05/10/12 17:30
After U.S. dairy farmers collectively lost about $10 billion in income in 2009, safeguarding the industry from another precipitous drop became a prio...
Posted: 05/10/12 17:00
As the University of Nebraska's new Rural Futures Institute begins to take shape, one of its chief advocates acknowledges that past higher-education ...
Posted: 05/10/12 16:30
A year ago, a record amount of water was flowing through Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River in southeast South Dakota. On Wednesday, the tap was t...
Posted: 05/10/12 16:00
More than 75 million bushels of whole U.S. soybeans made their way to Japan last year, thanks to strong demand for quality soy. Next week, a delegatio...
Posted: 05/10/12 15:30
The U.S. trade deficit rose in March at the
fastest rate in 10 months. A rise in consumer goods lifted imports
to a record level, outpac...
Posted: 05/10/12 15:00
True to his roots as a frontier farm boy, on May 15, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to create the U.S. Department of Agriculture (...
Posted: 05/10/12 14:30
A University of Georgia researcher has received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to study the genetics of soybeans.
Wayne Parro...
Posted: 05/10/12 14:00
At a joint meeting of the Twin Platte Natural Resources District (TPNRD) and the Central Platte Natural Resources District (CPNRD) boards of directors...
Posted: 05/10/12 13:00
At a joint meeting of the Twin Platte Natural Resources District (TPNRD) and the Central Platte Natural Resources District (CPNRD) boards of directors...
Posted: 05/10/12 12:00
USDA now is accepting applications for grants to help low and very-low income rural residents repair their homes. These Housing Preservation Gran...
Posted: 05/10/12 12:00
There are going to be more soybeans grown across the United States this year, but that increase will be dwarfed by the amount of soybeans that will be...
Posted: 05/10/12 11:00
Deputy Ag Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced Wednesday 4-million dollars of funding to help states expand wireless technology availability in ...
Posted: 05/10/12 10:00
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk says he thinks the overall economic situation in countries across the world puts everyone in a better position...
Posted: 05/10/12 09:00
A one-size-fits-all approach is something Ag Committee members in Congress have been fighting against regarding the farm bill. House Ag Committee Chai...
Posted: 05/10/12 07:00
The American Farm Bureau Federation joined 14 state Farm Bureau organizations and 16 other national and regional ag organizations on Tuesday and filed...
