Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. The next year, the nonprofit, tied to a P.O. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment…
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Agricultural Profitability will host a webinar at noon Central time on Dec. 7, covering the Corporate Transparency Act and 2024 filing requirements for businesses, including many farms and ranches. In 2021, the U.S. Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act, which will require virtually all…
Turn south onto the blacktop out of this Cherry County ranch town, and the Sandhills seem to roll on for an eternity. “Wide-open spaces” aptly describes the endless prairie, where cowboys still work cattle on horseback and stargazers come to get away from city lights. You’re lucky to encounter another…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has named six members to the United Sorghum Checkoff Program’s Board of Directors. Among them, Tracy Zink from Indianola, Nebraska, is appointed as an At-Large Member for a three-year term starting December 2023. The 13-member United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board is composed of nine…
The Nebraska Brand Committee has a new executive director. The Committee voted 5-0 to hire Don Arp, the former head of the Nebraska Crime Commission, to replace outgoing Executive Director John Widdowson, during a special meeting on Wednesday, November 15. More from Tri-State Livestock News The announcement came after a…
There’s never a Black Friday discount when a piece of Nebraska farmland hits the market in 2023, be it a fertile field in the Platte River Valley or a vast swath of Sandhills pastureland. The market’s hot. And corporate farms, both in-state and out, are dipping into their deep pockets…
As families and friends gather around the holiday table, sometimes they part ways taking home more than leftovers; they also bring home germs that lead to sickness. In much the same way, sickness can spread when cattle originating from different operations co-mingle too soon, said Kansas State Univeristy Beef…
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Livestock Judging team finished its 2023 season earning numerous accolades, including 12 top-eight overall finishes, 31 top-eight division finishes and 53 individual top-10 finishes. The team also celebrated its first academic all-American honoree in program history. In addition, the high-achieving team was led by the Intercollegiate…
In 2020, the agricultural sector received about $45 billion — the most ever — in federal assistance. More than half of that came in the form of direct pandemic aid from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to federal data. But a significant amount came from a non-USDA source: the…
U.S. Congressman Mike Flood announced Adam Khattak, a Lincoln Southwest High School student, as the Congressional App Challenge (CAC) winner for Nebraska’s First Congressional District. For the challenge, Khattak coded an app called “AI Corn Disease Detector.” The application allows users to upload pictures of crops, and then the app…
