Posted: 02/22/12 15:00
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) _ Fresno County authorities are offering $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in last month's arson attack California's ...
Posted: 02/22/12 11:00
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a new conservation initiative to protect up to 750-thousand acres of the nation's most highly erodible...
Posted: 02/22/12 10:00
Fears of supply disruption in Iran and upbeat economic data from the world's largest oil user, the United States, have pushed oil prices up over the p...
Posted: 02/22/12 10:00
In a turbulent year for America's economy, domestic ethanol production was a shining light of hope for hundreds of thousands of American families in 2...
Posted: 02/22/12 09:30
In an effort to foster a more balanced conversation about farm-animal care and to provide credible feedback to promote continuous improvement, the Cen...
Posted: 02/22/12 09:00
Obama Administration officials have announced three significant actions to expand the government's purchase of biobased products, promote regional rur...
Posted: 02/22/12 08:30
The American Soybean Association congratulates President Barack Obama and the administration for completing its review of the free trade agreement bet...
Posted: 02/22/12 08:00
United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk says the free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea will be implemented on March 15, 2...
Posted: 02/21/12 15:30
Kearney, NE, February 20, 2012 - The 2012 Nebraska Cattlemen's Classic experienced a large turnout for the first day of activities. New this year was ...
Posted: 02/21/12 13:00
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) _ The number of wind turbines completed in Wyoming is lagging the number of permits issued by state regulators to build them.
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Posted: 02/21/12 12:30
With spring just around the corner farmers could be enticed to plant a little too early. Imad Saab, Pioneer research scientist in crop genetics, resea...
Posted: 02/21/12 12:00
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Dave White has announced a partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to improve w...
Posted: 02/21/12 11:30
There is some indication that a new farm bill could be voted on by Congress before the upcoming Presidential election. House Ag Committee Chairman Fr...
Posted: 02/21/12 11:02
Despite the goodwill expressed with diplomatic gestures, during Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's visit to the farm belt last week, the world's two ...
Posted: 02/20/12 17:33
The US Department of Agriculture reaching out the public with a upcoming meeting. The evening workshop will showcase programs offered through the Farm...
Posted: 02/20/12 17:00
In running for US Senate Ben Nelson's seat, University of Nebraska Regent Chuck Hassebrook is stepping down from his position with the Center for Rura...
Posted: 02/20/12 14:00
A Kimball and Omaha teacher have been honored as the 2012 Nebraska Farm Bureau Teachers of the Year. Nebraska Farm Bureau's Ag Promotion Committee an...
Posted: 02/20/12 13:00
This week is the 2012 Panhandle No-Till Winter Conference. The conference will feature two days dedicated to no-till crop production. The event will ...
Posted: 02/20/12 12:39
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Legislators continue to move forward on changes to Kansas water policy aimed at improving conservation efforts and prolonging...
Posted: 02/20/12 10:53
WASHINGTON (Feb. 20, 2012) – The National Cattlemen's Beef Association's (NCBA) government affairs office in Washington, D.C., is accepting applicatio...
Posted: 02/20/12 09:00
When the United States and China Signed a Plan of Strategic Cooperation last week, Chinese importers signed multiple contracts with American farmers t...
Posted: 02/20/12 07:00
National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson says - the decision by EPA to accept the health effects information submitted by the Renewable Fuels As...
Posted: 02/20/12 04:43
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given the go-ahead for the sales of a mixture of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline. Growth Energ...
Posted: 02/17/12 11:09
LINCOLN, Neb. -- "Water for Food: Think globally, act locally" is the topic for the Heuermann Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, in Hardin Hall aud...
Posted: 02/17/12 10:49
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The latest three-month forecast from the National Weather Service says there's little chance of major spring flooding in ...
Posted: 02/17/12 10:46
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Nebraska announced that $3.6 million is available to help...
Posted: 02/17/12 10:04
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ A monthly survey of bankers in 10 Midwest and
Great Plains states shows the rural economy slowing down, but
reflects s...
Posted: 02/17/12 09:00
The American Farm Bureau Federation wants the All Children are Equal Act included in the Student Success Act. Farm Bureau sees the ACE Act as being th...
Posted: 02/17/12 07:00
The animal rights group Compassion Over Killing has released a video, which was shot in December 2011at the Hawkeye Sow Centers near Leland, Iowa. The...
Posted: 02/17/12 04:39
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and China's Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu have signed a Plan of Strategic Cooperation that will guide the two ...
Posted: 02/16/12 14:28
MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) _ China's likely next leader remembered the popcorn he'd received as a parting gift _ and the strong Chinese liquor he left ...
Posted: 02/16/12 12:28
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Gov. Sam Brownback says members of President Barack Obama's administration still support building a new biosecurity lab in Ka...
Posted: 02/16/12 09:00
The Federal Communications Commission says it will block the planned development of a nationwide wireless network by communications company LightSquar...
Posted: 02/16/12 07:00
The Senate Ag Committee Wednesday held the first in a series of meetings focused on the next Farm Bill. Ag Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow told t...
Posted: 02/16/12 04:36
The European Union and the United States have signed an agreement that will establish a strong foundation from which to promote organic agriculture, b...
Posted: 02/15/12 14:32
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) _ A Gage County livestock operation has reached a settlement with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
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Posted: 02/15/12 12:40
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
says a national biological and agricultural defense laboratory in
the U.S....
Posted: 02/15/12 11:05
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead has declared February 13 - 18 as "Wyoming Agricultural Literacy Week." The week recognizes the importance of the Wyoming a...
Posted: 02/15/12 10:19
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ The Nebraska Attorney General's office would lose its oversight of a state environmental fund, under two proposals slated fo...
Posted: 02/15/12 09:00
Senate Republicans have introduced an amendment to a federal transportation bill that would speed the construction and operation of the controversial ...
Posted: 02/15/12 07:00
Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ben Nelson of Nebraska are leading a bipartisan group of 31 senators pressing the administration to issue a compre...
Posted: 02/15/12 04:28
Research has confirmed a correlation between talc and seed treatment used in planters and honeybee deaths. The problem is neonicotinoids which are use...
Posted: 02/14/12 18:18
The 2011 sugar beet campaign is nearing it's end as the piles of sugar beets at the Scottsbluff sugar factory and surrounding areas have gradually dis...
Posted: 02/14/12 09:00
MF Global commodity customers, whose cash vanished when the firm collapsed last year, lost more than first thought. The New York Times reports that MF...
Posted: 02/14/12 07:00
The National Pork Producers Council is offering assistance to McDonald's as it assesses sow housing. NPPC believes the announcement reflects the best ...
Posted: 02/14/12 04:47
McDonald's Corporation has announced it will begin developing a plan to transition its pork supply away from farmers who use conventional sow gestatio...
Posted: 02/13/12 09:00
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making ready to conduct the 2012 Census of Agriculture. The department has mailed out the National Agricultural ...
Posted: 02/13/12 07:00
Data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates U.S. farm exports set a record during 2011. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says this record de...
Posted: 02/13/12 04:31
President Barack Obama is expected to present a budget proposal today that will trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. In the Senate, Budget ...
Posted: 02/12/12 20:03
While it may not look like spring time outside, that's not slowing farmers down in getting for spring planting. This week Western Sugar Cooperative ...
Posted: 02/11/12 17:00
The Department of Agriculture has released its monthly World Agriculture supply and Demand Estimates for the month of February. Here are highlights o...
Posted: 02/11/12 13:48
A rapid skunk has been identified in northeast Scotts Bluff County. On Wednesday the Scotts Bluff County Health Department confirmed the erratic skun...
Posted: 02/11/12 12:00
In its February report on orange production, USDA reports that orange production is down less than 1 percent from January. The U.s. all orange forecas...
Posted: 02/10/12 07:00
Government and industry leaders from the United States and China will gather in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, February 16, for the first U.S.-China A...
Posted: 02/10/12 04:48
A recent Freedom of Information Act request revealed that since December 2011 more than 120 complaints have been filed with the Federal Trade Commissi...
Posted: 02/09/12 19:45
Work on the Farm Bill is getting it's start in Washington D.C.. Typically the House takes the lead, but unlike past bills, the 2012 Farm Bill will be...
Posted: 02/09/12 19:40
POWELL, Wyo. (AP) _ The Western Sugar Cooperative is nearing the end of delivering sugar beets to the Lovell processing factory in northern Wyomi...
Posted: 02/09/12 09:00
Florida Representative Tom Rooney is concerned over the growing trend of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop public policy as the result of...
Posted: 02/09/12 07:00
The National Corn Growers Association is voicing it's disappoint after the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee's Energy and Environment Sub...
Posted: 02/09/12 04:37
Experts from the United States and Canada are calling for increased usage of biodiesel in North America, saying the sustainable transportation fuel pr...
Posted: 02/08/12 17:56
The Natural Resources Conservation Service says Wyoming's snowpack is below average. The statewide snow water equivalent, which measures how much wate...
Posted: 02/08/12 09:00
The American Soybean Association says the European Union's heavy-handed policies on biotech soybeans, as well as inaccurate characterization of biodie...
Posted: 02/08/12 07:00
The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee's Energy and Environment Subcommittee has marked up E15 legislation which would require even more s...
Posted: 02/08/12 04:41
Tuesday afternoon, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted largely along party lines to advance a bill on the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The legi...
Posted: 02/07/12 09:00
During the first quarter of fiscal year 2012, the Department of Agriculture sanctioned through fines or temporary disqualification, more than 225 stor...
Posted: 02/07/12 07:00
Under the Budget Control Act passed in August, 2011, without a farm bill, "sequestration" will take place. That is to say there will be automatic bud...
Posted: 02/07/12 04:35
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association continues to raise concerns to the U.S. Forest Service about the detrimental impacts its proposed forest pla...
Posted: 02/06/12 19:00
Action on the Farm Bill could get underway in the near future. Last week Chairwoman of the Senate Committee, Senator Debbie Stabenow announced the da...
Posted: 02/06/12 18:30
The Nebraska Crop Improvement Association and the Nebraska Seed Trade Association has honored two individuals from western Nebraska. At the 19th annu...
Posted: 02/06/12 17:57
The US Department of Agriculture is needing assistance from the state's ag producers. The National Ag Statistics Service(NASS) will be contacting 35 ...
Posted: 02/06/12 11:07
International trade, cattle payment efficiency and herd health were among the key policy issues members of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association ...
Posted: 02/06/12 09:00
Last Thursday, the House Financial Services Subcommittee held its second hearing on the MF Global Holdings failure. Lawmakers focused on an internal ...
Posted: 02/06/12 07:00
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has marked up the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012. American Soybean Associati...
Posted: 02/06/12 04:46
Hormel Foods Corporation's company-owned farms will phase out the use of small metal crates for confining pregnant hogs by the end of 2017. In an on-l...
Posted: 02/04/12 09:00
This is the time of year when growers are in a position to take advantage of offers from their suppliers. Offers that save producers dollars while gu...
Posted: 02/02/12 16:34
North Platte River stream flows are increasing. The Bureau of Reclamation is temporarily using the spillway at Alcova dam to make water releases. Th...
Posted: 02/02/12 16:30
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Dee Griffin received the 2012 Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Educator of the Year at the 2012 Cattle Industry Conventio...
Posted: 02/02/12 14:47
Quinn Cattle Company of Chadron is the 2011 Beef Improvement Federation Commercial Producer of the Year. The Quinns were honored in June at the organ...
Posted: 02/02/12 14:33
Increased regulations are the top concern for the state's agribusinesses. The Nebraska Agribusiness Association represents the state's equipment manu...
Posted: 02/01/12 09:07
The Nebraska Agri-Business Association recognized seven individuals for their contributions to agriculture in a reception in Omaha Tuesday night.
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Posted: 01/31/12 23:30
Two Center Pivot Irrigation Management Short Courses have been planned to enhancing the value of water through advanced irrigation management practice...
Posted: 01/31/12 22:30
The Center for Rural Affairs will partner with Efficiency Counts, University of Nebraska College of Business and Technology, University of Nebraska Ce...
Posted: 01/31/12 21:30
It was his first time in any auctioneer contest, and Blaine Lotz, 18, made the most of it. He won Livestock Marketing Association's 3rd qualifying con...
Posted: 01/31/12 20:30
The National Pork Producers Council criticized congressional legislation introduced today that would prescribe cage sizes for egg-laying hens, saying...
Posted: 01/31/12 19:30
(NCBA) President Bill Donald today criticized legislation introduced by Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) that would codify an agreement between the Humane ...
Posted: 01/31/12 18:30
Today, Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill denied the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) motion to stay the decision he issued on December 29, 2011 that ha...
Posted: 01/31/12 16:30
In 2009, the Midwest Food Processors Association asked University of Illinois associate professor of crop sciences and USDA-ARS ecologist Marty Willia...
Posted: 01/31/12 16:00
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that USDA is seeking applications to provide assistance to agricultural producers and rural small busi...
Posted: 01/31/12 15:30
The Weed Science Society of America will co-sponsor an upcoming scientific summit on how to manage herbicide-resistant weeds – a costly and growing pr...
Posted: 01/31/12 15:00
Cattle that graze on rangelands in the western United States may soon have a new forage option, thanks to work by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (US...
Posted: 01/31/12 15:00
The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to people familiar with the investigation, and nearly three months after MF Global Holdings Ltd. colla...
Posted: 01/31/12 14:30
The Department of Agriculture has awarded a research grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to help reduce the occurrence and public health risks...
Posted: 01/31/12 14:00
U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) has invited U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis to Kansas so she can personally see how proposed rules by the Depart...
Posted: 01/31/12 13:30
The 17th Annual National Ethanol Conference of the Renewable Fuels Association is scheduled for February 22-24 in Orlando, Florida. Agriculture Secre...
Posted: 01/31/12 13:00
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting applications for federal REAP funds to help gasoline retailers install blender pumps design...
Posted: 01/31/12 12:30
American Ethanol will continue its relationships with Richard Childress Racing and RAB Racing for the 2012 season. Austin Dillon, 2011 NASCAR Camping ...
Posted: 01/31/12 12:30
Officials from EPA Regions 7 and 8
today hosted a meeting with the directors of state agriculture
departments of Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, Miss...
Posted: 01/31/12 12:00
As the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture draws to a close in Berlin, The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance has challenged new FAO Director General, ...
Posted: 01/31/12 11:30
The California Air Resources Board has asked Judge Lawrence O'Neill of the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of California to stay the injun...
Posted: 01/31/12 10:30
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has notified the Senate ethics committee regarding questionable contacts by LightSquared concerning Grassley's interest in...
