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• Kelsey Pope joins staff of Nebraska Corn Board

  Kelsey Pope has joined the staff of the Nebraska Corn Board as Ag Promotion Coordinator.
  
  In this role, Pope will work on behalf of Nebraska corn producers to expand marketing opportunities, partner with livestock industry groups to develop joint strategies and assist in coordinating [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:56pm EST
  

• Nebraska Ag Classic (#NEAC09) set to get underway

  The fifth annual Nebraska Ag Classic is gets underway tomorrow evening (Tuesday, Dec. 1) and runs through December 3. This year's event is at the Cornhusker Marriott in Lincoln and, as always, features some outstanding speakers who will cover a number of critical topics for agriculture. (Here's the [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:15pm EST
  

• Use Garmin or TomTom? Download e85 points of interests (POIs)

  The Renewable Fuels Association today released downloads available to Garmin and TomTom GPS devices that allow you to import all e85 (85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gas) stations in the country to the device.
  
  That means wherever you are in the country, your GPS unit can map out [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:00pm EST
  

• Climate change: Global warming with the lid off

  The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article that has spurred a huge number of comments and further muddied the climate change debate.
  
  Global Warming With the Lid Off provides a peek into the hidden/secret/deleted emails between scientists.
  
  The WSJ report notes that the emails show [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:54am EST
  

• Nebraska corn harvest 65 percent complete

  Farmers in Nebraska made good progress in getting the corn in again this past week - with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its weekly crop progress report today, noting that 65 percent of the crop was harvested for the week ending Nov. 22.
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:34pm EST
  

• Mike Rowe on agriculture; plus his early days on TV

  Mike Rowe, who hosts “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery Channel, has spoken several times about farming and farm life - and how sometimes farmers do indeed know the best way to do what they do. (See this video on lamb castration, farming and hard work.)
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:20pm EST
  

• Podcasts: Corn checkoff testimony, appreciation

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  We have two podcasts this week.
  
  The first is by Lynn Chrisp, a farmer from Kenesaw and a member of the Nebraska Corn Growers Association. Chrisp provides a few details on testimony provided by NeCGA president Brandon Hunnicutt, a farmer from Giltner, to the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:24am EST
  

• Corn genome sequence - 'wiring diagram' - being released

  While we've known for sometime that a map of the corn genome had been completed, details from the Maize Genome Sequencing Project will officially appear in tomorrow's edition of the journal Science - which features a cover story on the subject.
  
  This new report highlights the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:03pm EST
  

• Chief Ethanol Fuels turns 25

  Nebraska's first modern ethanol plant - Chief Ethanol Fuels near Hastings - is celebrating 25 years in operation with an open house next Monday, Nov. 23.
  
  Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson will provide keynote remarks at 1:00 p.m. Bob Eihusen, president of Chief Industries, Chief Ethanol's' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• Nebraska corn 48 percent harvested

  In its weekly crop progress report issued today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 48 percent of Nebraska’s corn crop was in the bin - that’s an 18-point increase from last week.
  
  Harvest is still behind last year and the average. A year ago, [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:17pm EST
  

• Erwin recognized with Elevator Appreciation Award

  The Nebraska Corn Board recognized Rich Erwin with its annual Elevator Appreciation Award. Erwin is the owner and operator of Laurel Feed and Grain of Laurel, NE.
  
  “Rich Erwin is an active Nebraska elevator manager who exhibits an excellent understanding of the value of the Nebraska corn checkoff [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  

• Decision unanimous to protect checkoff funds

  The Nebraska legislature's Appropriations Committee today agreed to recommend that the Legislature not authorize a transfer of money from several state checkoff boards to help balance the state's budget.
  
  Checkoffs that were on the list to have money transferred from their accounts to the general fund included corn, grain [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:04pm EST
  

• Podcast: Farmers remain a trusted source of information

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  In this Podcast, Carl Sousek, a farmer from Prague and a member of the Nebraska Corn Growers Association, talks about a survey that found broad public respect and trust for family farmers and broad support for corn as food, feed and fuel.
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  

• Checkoff thoughts from Nebraska Cattlemen

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  Michael Kelsey, executive vice president of Nebraska Cattlemen, did a radio report late last week talking about checkoffs - and how those funds were setup by farmers to promote their products.
  
  He noted that he believes it is inappropriate to use farmer checkoff funds in the state's general' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:52am EST
  

• Irrigation, livestock water use lowest since 1970s

  Every five years the U.S. Geological Survey does an assessment of water use in the United States. It recently came out with its analysis of water use in 2005 (the latest figures).
  
  In its analysis, it said that the United States used 410 billion gallons of water per day [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:15am EST
  

• Testimony presented on corn checkoff

  Corn farmers testified in front of the Nebraska legislature's appropriations committee yesterday to explain why they believe it is wrong to transfer money from checkoff programs into the state's general general fund.
  
  Alan Tiemann, a farmer from Seward and chair of the Nebraska Corn Board, the farmer-run organization that [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:29am EST
  

• Podcast: Ag myths abound the popular press and bad TV shows

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  In this Podcast, Greg Whitmore, a farmer from Shelby and a member of the Nebraska Corn Growers Association, discusses some of the crazy things farmers have heard over the last few weeks -- from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and taxes to prime time television [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:52pm EST
  

• Nebraska corn 30 percent harvested

  Good news came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture today when its weekly crop progress report confirmed that progress was indeed made on getting Nebraska's corn crop in the bin.
  
  USDA reported that 30 percent of Nebraska's corn crop was harvested as of Nov. [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  

• Checkoff, budget plan continues to draw attention

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  A proposal to use checkoff funds to help fill a small gap of the big hole in the Nebraska state budget continues to draw the attention. Media continue to report on the subject, and many farmers, it seems, have been contacting their state legislators and representatives to voice their opinion [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:34pm EST
  

• Corn checkoff in the news

  Repurposing checkoff funds as a way to help the state of Nebraska close its budget has been in the news across Nebraska this week -- and I’ve compiled a list of a few of those articles below.
  
  In general, ag groups point out that checkoff funds are paid by [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:35pm EST
  

• What is the corn checkoff?

  Over the last couple of days, several folks have asked “what is the corn checkoff?” To help answer that question, I’ve put this together as an attempt to explain. Feel free to leave a comment if you have a question or clarification.
  
  Many corn producing states have implemented a [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:32am EST
  

• Chevy VP: For biofuels, it’s all of the above

  While not online, the Oct. 29 issue of Rolling Stone magazine includes an interview with Brent Dewar, vice president of Chevrolet Global.
  
  As pointed out on the Domestic Fuel blog, Dewer was asked about biofuels - and he had some positive things to say:
  
  Biofuels have [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:37pm EST
  

• Distillers grains production, use expanding

  Reuters has published a good article on distillers grains -- the feed product produced by corn ethanol plants.
  
  The article explains that as ethanol production expands into the next year, the supply of distillers grains will increase as well. In fact, estimates in the article are that distillers [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:22pm EST
  

• Podcast: First modern ethanol plant turning 25; ag groups need to work together

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  In this Podcast, Jon Holzfaster, a cattle and corn farmer from Paxton, talks about the growth of the ethanol industry over the last year. (Yes...growth! Production each month this year has surpassed last year.)
  
  He also talks about the importance of different ag groups -- [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:49pm EST
  

• Crop progress?

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture came out with its latest crop progress report today -- although progress is certainly open for debate, especially if you live in western Nebraska and got socked with a another foot of snow last week.
  
  USDA said 18 percent of Nebraska's corn crop' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:56pm EST