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Longtime Northeast faculty/staff members retire

NORFOLK, NE – Four long time members of the Northeast Community College faculty and staff were honored recently during a Retirement Reception. Harry Lindner, drafting instructor, and Dr. Linda Boullion, music department chair and director of choral music activities, will retire over the summer,...

More classes coming up at NECC

NORFOLK – Northeast Community College in Norfolk will hold another one-session Heartsaver Adult CPR and AED class in June. The non-credit class, with course number HLTH 5140/17S & CRN #70135 will meet Saturday, June 10, from 8 a.m.-12 p.m., in the Arlo Wirth building, Room 103, on the North...

USDA Releases Bearish Cattle On Feed Report

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.0 million head on May 1, 2017. The inventory was 2 percent above May 1, 2016. Placements in feedlots during April totaled 1.85 million head, 11 percent above 2016. Net...

Lawmakers Use Farm Bill Hearing to Push Back on Proposed USDA Budget Cuts

As they heard testimony from economists on the problems in farm country, leaders of the Senate Agriculture said Thursday there should no more cuts to farm bill programs. Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and ranking member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., made the statements two days after President...