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- Corn-Fed Beef Trade Mission Wraps Up in Korea
Trip gives producers chance to dispel mistaken consumer assumptions. A group of corn and beef producers from Iowa and Nebraska finished an Asian trade mission this weekend in Korea by holding meetings with retailers, distributors, cold storage operators
- Cornhuskers in Afghanistan: Planting new ideas
The man they call A.K. was the first Afghan farmer to try things the Cornhusker way. A.K. watched closely as the Nebraska National Guard members -- many of them Nebraska farm boys -- demonstrated how to grow grapes above ground instead of down in the
- Kansas City Fed: Regional Factory Production Now Net Positive
For the first time in 10 months the Tenth Federal Reserve District is reporting factory production that is now net positive. The Tenth Federal Reserve District encompasses Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, northern New Mexico, and western
- Producers Promoting Nebraska Beef in Japan, South Korea
Nebraska Ag News Headlines Nebraska Ag Connection - 06/26/2009 Representatives from the Nebraska Corn Board and Nebraska Beef Council, and their counterparts from Iowa, are in Japan and South Korea this week for a joint trade mission to support corn-fed
- Jobless rate in Western US tops 10 percent
(AP)
AP - The unemployment rate in the West jumped over 10 percent last month, the first time that regional threshold has been broken in about 25 years. On the state level, eight set record-highs and only two — Nebraska and Vermont — did not report increases.
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Introduction
Nebraska became the United States thirty-seventh state on March 1, 1867. The capital is Lincoln. Nebraska gets its name from an Indian word meaning "flat water". President Gerald Ford was born in the Cornhusker State. The 911 emergency calling system was developed in Nebraska. With a land area of 76,887 square miles, Nebraska ranks 15th in size.
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Reuters - Warren Buffett said on Wednesday that the U.S. economy has "no bounce" and will take time to recover, but there is no risk of deflation to push it further into despair.
Reuters - The annual charity auction of a steak lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, which raised a record $2.11 million last year, is off to a strong start.
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