http://www.NEFB.org This news feed combines the latest Farm Bureau news releases, together with Farm Bureau At Work, Focus & Commentary, and Nebraska Farm Bureau News. http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1771 Tue, 06 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT News Releases http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1766 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT News Releases http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1762 tinah@nefb.org Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Focus and Commentary U.S. Beef will once again be offered in Korean. Nebraska Farm Bureau’s Tina Henderson tells us more in the following report. The report runs 2:03. Following the report is the FB View and an interview with Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen – who will talk with us about how in the last five years there has been dramatic efficiency gains in ethanol production and why. The FB View run... http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1775 Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT News Releases Bev Meyer of Hooper and Jane Nyffeler of Lincoln have been named 2008 Nebraska Agriculture in the Classroom Teachers of the Year. http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1778 Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Nebraska Farm Bureau News Ethanol and High Grain Prices Have Minimal Impact on the Price of Food; All FB Friends of Agriculture Advance to the General Election; 2007 Nebraska AITC Teachers of the Year Selected for National Honors; Recently Passed Farm Bill Package Strikes Key Balance; Convention Keynoter Will Discuss How Society Now Views Animals; Ag Industry Challenges Validity of Pew Commission Report on Animal Ag http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1758 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Nebraska Farm Bureau News NFBF Designates Friends of Ag in Open Legislative Races; Feed Costs Challenge Livestock Interests; 2008 Legislature Tackles More Ag Issues than Expected; Young Farmers and Ranchers Anticipate Bright Future in Agriculture; New Features, New Format in Two-Day 2008 FB Convention http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1765 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT News Releases Click the State Fair logo above right to nominate a family. For more info, click on "more." http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1761 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT News Releases Most of the farmers responding to Nebraska Farm Bureau’s first crop report of 2008 said they will stick with the planting plans they made earlier this year. http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1769 Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Farm Bureau At Work Kevin Peterson of Osceola, a hog producer and member of the NFBF board, responded to Nebraska news media inquiries this week regarding the Pew Commission on “Industrial Farm Animal Production” report released April 29. The American Farm Bureau and other ag organizations have closely monitored the work of this commission, which appeared from its start two years ago to have a bias against contemp... http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1764 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Farm Bureau At Work A new Nebraska Farm Bureau TV commercial airing this month and next showcases the good care food animal producers give their animals. Tina Henderson, director of communications services, coordinated the 30-second ad, which is airing on KMEG TV in Sioux City and KPTM in Omaha. The commercial shows the Greg and Malinda Villwok family feeding their cattle and the Jim and Jan Miller family caring f... http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1772 Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Farm Bureau At Work Nebraska Farm Bureau sent comments this week to the Nebraska Department of Roads concerning proposed permit regulations for roadside hay harvesting. In general, Farm Bureau is concerned that the proposed regulations are too restrictive, Jay Rempe, state director of governmental relations, said in the comments. The regs need to be simpler and more flexible to encourage permit applications, he sa... http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1770 Mon, 05 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Farm Bureau At Work Nebraska Farm Bureau is asking the Nebraska Public Service Commission to maintain existing Schedule A rates which govern storage rates charged by licensed grain warehouses. The commission may be asked to increase the receiving, handling and delivering rates and the storage and insurance rates in Schedule A, to cover escalating costs being experienced by the warehouse industry, particularly fo... http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1773 tinah@nefb.org Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Focus and Commentary growing season is off to a very slow start around the nation and that means some corn farmers will be scrambling to apply nitrogen – usually in the form of anhydrous ammonia. Most of the time this is done prior to planting. But it’s too late to do that this year. Nebraska Farm Bureau’s Tina Henderson tells us more in the following report. The report runs 1:59. Following the report is the FB View a... http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1768 tinah@nefb.org Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Focus and Commentary Rising food costs in the United States and overseas are receiving a great deal of attention, and a range of complex factors are behind this relatively new phenomenon. Nebraska Farm Bureau’s Tina Henderson tells us more in the following report. The report runs 2:24. Following the report is the FB View and an interview with University of Illinois Extension Ag Economist Darrel Good who will talk with... http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1760 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Farm Bureau At Work Nebraska Farm Bureau President Keith Olsen commented for the news media Friday on the planned opening of the Korea market to U.S. beef. "This agreement is a huge victory for Nebraska cattlemen in that we now have an excellent opportunity to sell Nebraska and U.S. beef into what was once our third-largest export market,” he said. “This news could not have come at a better time, given that m... http://www.nefb.org/news/news.aspx?archive=0&id=1776 tinah@nefb.org Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Focus and Commentary March was the biggest export month in history - following on the heels of the first month ag exports ever topped 10-billion dollars. Nebraska Farm Bureau’s Tina Henderson tells us more in the following report. The report runs 1:48. Following the report is the FB View and an interview with Darrell Good, University of Illinois ag economist about winter wheat and how production is up from last year. ...