Resource district to meet farmers on irrigation plan
Central Platte Natural Resources District board requests a meeting with the Central Nebraska Conservation Association over a proposed irrigation project for 50 000 to 70 000 acres in Hall and Buffalo counties. The district seeks more details and notes plans for a six year program totaling about 12 million dollars with possible Army Corps of Engineers collaboration.
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Grand Island
Neb
UPT
Central Platte Natural Resources District Board of Directors
Central Nebraska Conservation Association
Hall
Buffalo
Ron Bishop
Resources District
State Water Resources Department
Mid-State
Ron Hargens
Cairo
MidState
Merritt County
Bishop
Army Corps of Engineers
Early programming to aid wheat price policy
Washington officials plan to smooth food aid by scheduling 1.2 million metric tons of wheat under Food for Peace from October to January and 300 000 tons of rice from October to December. The plan focuses on long term credit and other programs to boost shipments and stabilize prices.
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Washington
UPI
Dale Sherwin
Richard Bell
Bell
Agriculture Department
Vision-17 eyes role in gasohol plant project
The Vision-17, Inc. president said he will ask Jim Bradley to contact the State Gasohol Committee and State Sen. Loran Schmit to determine the companys potential role in a gasohol plant initiative in southeast Nebraska.
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Lincoln, Neb
UPI
Vision-17, Inc
Nebraska
Vision-17
Jim Bradley
Gasohol Committee
Loran Schmit
Bellwood
White House faces ECM threat to U S soybean exports
Farmers press Washington to block European Common Market action feared to cut into the 2 billion annual U S soybean and oil exports. Frederick Dent warned ECM at Geneva that an import tax would be unfair and unwise while USDA officials signaled a tougher stance in trade talks and Western Europe market concessions.
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White House
Ford Administration
Congress
U.S
Geneva
Agreemen Trade
Frederick B. Dent
Dent
ECM
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Bell
United States
Farm land values rise on grain hopes and exports
Nebraska and Iowa farmland values jumped about 26 percent from March 1975 to February 1976 as agricultural economists cite optimism about grain prices and rising exports. The February average farmland value was 364 per acre, up from 325 in November, with nonfarm development pressures contributing less to the rise.
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Gages
Nebraska
Iowa
Schuyler farm tour to showcase soybean plots August 28
A Colfax County extension tour begins at 6 30 p m at the Jedlicka farm three miles east and three quarters north of Schuyler. Visitors will view 23 soybean herbicide plots and observe irrigation runoff reuse effects and nitrogen fertility rates from 0 to 200. The event is hosted by Colfax County Extension East Platte and University of Nebraska Extension in cooperation with the USDA.
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Colfax County
Sterling Breuer
Jedlicka
Schuyler
Colfax
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Kewanee
John Deere
Kelly Ryan
Herrow
Dover
Minneapolis
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Dearborn
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Kopper
Lindsay
KING
Servis
INC
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Tooleys
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Norfolk
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