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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Nebraska is reminding the state’s producers who suffered impacts due to recent severe winter weather of programs that may be available for assistance.

THE BULL

Corman, Oglesby brothers set the tone in 16 point victory

Sutton outscores Bluejays 9-7 in overtime victory

The Aksarben Foundation, along with Nebraska Farm Bureau and the Nebraska Association of Fair Managers, announces that applications for the Nebraska Pioneer Farm and Nebraska Heritage Farm Awards are being accepted now through April 15, 2024. These awards recognize Nebraska farm families who have consecutively held ownership of land in the same family for at least 100 years (Pioneer) or 150 years (Heritage), respectively.

The Nebraska Unicameral Legislature continues with introduction of potential new laws and changes to existing state law, and has now began scheduling committee hearings on these bills.

Calving, lambing, and kidding out goats in January is always a chilly endeavor.

ANDERSON’S ANGLE

Aug. 31, 1943 ~ Jan. 14, 2024

Temperatures that failed to get above zero degrees over much of the weekend, with windchills dipping to nearly 50-below in much of Clay County, as much of the eastern two-thirds of the state of Nebraska was taking on heavy doses of snowfall during the past week. In Clay County alone, the National Weather Service office out Hastings has estimated that eight-12 inches of snow covered the ground over the course of two storms that blasted the county last week. Here, a tractor on the Jesse and Shelli Mohnike farm, just south and west of Sutton shows the magnitude of the blowing snow over the weekend.

LENEXA, KS. (JAN. 11, 2024) – Aurora Cooperative Elevator Company has agreed to pay a $82,677 civil penalty to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act’s chemical risk prevention provisions at its agronomy business in Harvard.