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Weed Management Field Day June 26 at South Central Agricultural Laboratory
Growers, crop consultants and educators are encouraged to attend Nebraska Extension's Weed Management Field Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wed., June 26, 2024, at the South Central Agricultural Laboratory near Clay Center. The field day will include on-site demonstrations of new technology and new herbicides for corn, soybean…
June Rural Mainstreet Index below growth-neutral for 10th straight month
For a 10th straight month, the overall Rural Mainstreet Index produced by Creighton University's Heider College of Business sank below growth neutral. According to the June survey of bank CEOs in rural areas of a 10-state region, the overall reading hit 41.7, down 2.5 points from May. Economist Ernie Goss…
Gering PVC wins again in blowout of Chadron
The Gering Platte Valley Companies seniors just keep winning baseball games. On Wednesday night Gering improved to 14-4 on the season as they rolled past Chadron at Oregon Trail Park by the final of 12-4 in five innings. The game got off to a bit of a rocky start as…
Hays sweeps doubleheader from Pioneers
The Western Nebraska Pioneers finished up their road trip through Kansas by getting swept in a doubleheader by the Hays Larks on Wednesday night. After the rainout on Tuesday the two teams had a pair of seven inning games scheduled last night, one of which took extra innings. It wasn't…
Record Ag Trade Deficit Forecast for this year
The U.S. is facing a record-large agricultural trade deficit in 2024. In a recent Newsline, Betty Resnick, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the deficit has deepened significantly in the last two years. Betty Resnick, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the deficit has deepened…
Mountain Lion killed at Scotts Bluff Country Club
Authorities have confirmed to KNEB News that a mountain lion was euthanized Wednesday evening at Scotts Bluff Country Club. https://youtu.be/8dhIWWHVvB4 Around 1:50 p.m., a resident on Peacock Drive reported the sighting after she said the mountain lion jumped up on the window of her front porch and began hissing at…
Tennessee, Texas A&M advance to CWS Finals
Tennessee and Texas A&M will meet in the CWS Championship Series after winning their respective Semifinal Games at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha on Wednesday. The Aggies shutout Florida 6-0 in the nightcap after the Volunteers defeated Florida State 7-2 in the afternoon. Florida and Kentucky played a makeup game…
KNEB.tv News: June 19, 2024
Today on KNEB.tv News: Arson suspected following back-to-back house fires at same property Grass fire keeps firefighters busy across Morrill and Box Butte Counties Gas leak prompts 90 minute closure of Highway 71 near Scotts Bluff County Club Gov. Pillen hints at late July special legislative session Federal, state, local…
Schiff Fire flares back up southwest of Alliance
Firefighters returned Wednesday morning to the fire lines of what's now being called the Schiff Fire, the large grassland blaze in an area of rolling hills west-southwest of Alliance that started Tuesday morning. Through a post on the Alliance Fire Department Facebook page, Fire Chief Troy Shoemaker says after the…
Day 5, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
Kansas wheat producers can’t seem to catch a break in the weather, kicking up swirling, dust clouds as they raced to cut wheat ahead of heavy thunderstorms and hail on Tuesday, June 18. Harvest is now progressing into areas of south central Kansas that missed the rains that have benefited…