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The Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) and Nebraska Rural Development Commission awarded $106,205 to eight partnerships through the Building Entrepreneurial Communities Act (BECA). BECA is part of the Nebraska Advantage package. The City of Bassett and Rock County received $2,250 to promote the region through various media to attract [...]
In this week's podcast, Curtis Rohrich of Wood River, a director of the Nebraska Corn Growers Association, discusses the importance of adding value to corn through livestock. He also talks about A-FAN -- the Alliance for the Future of Agriculture in Nebraska
Growing seed corn is already big business in Nebraska, and several of the big seed companies are expanding their operations in the state. On the research end, lab technicians can splice together genes that give kernels genetic resistance to corn borers and rootworms.
But the high-tech work of seed development [...]
These days corn-based ethanol is being blamed for worldwide food shortages, inflation and environmental problems. But Nebraska Ethanol Board officials say much of the criticisms of ethanol are based on flawed information, and the industry needs to do more to defend itself. Nebraska Ethanol Board officials meeting Friday in Kearney [...]
More than $2.6 million in disaster aid has now been approved for Nebraska individuals and business owners who sustained damage during the storms, tornadoes and flooding that hammered the state from May 22 to June 24. The U.S. Small Business Administration has allocated more than $1.4 million of the approved [...]
Here is McCraw discussing and quoting Schumpeter's notes for the Walgreen Lectures that he was preparing to deliver just before he died.
(p. 475) In notes he prepared in 1949 for the prestigious Walgreen Lectures, Schumpeter headed one entire section "The Personal Element [...]
From my reading, the Iraq War is not as central in the minds of voters as it was two years ago. But, you were then quite a bit ahead of the curve calling for a new [...]