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Any farmer or rancher who is interested in conservation programs through the Natural Resources Conservation Service is required to have a farm number for the application process. Farm numbers are issued for free and allow access to key U.S.

R. J. Cline, Valentine, Nebraska, has been elected as an alternate delegate to the 138th American Angus Association® Convention of Delegates, set to be held November 8 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, TX.

Are some of your prized plants caged up to protect them from predators like deer, bunnies or other creatures? Animals will eat almost anything if they’re hungry enough but selecting less-favored plants from the outset can go a long way toward avoiding a “plant zoo” landscape.

When most Americans think of beans, they think first of garden-type fresh beans such as green beans, string beans and wax beans. But nutritionists think first of legumes. Legumes are those seed-bearing pods such as lentils, chickpeas, dry beans such as black, lima, pinto, kidney and navy beans.

On May 5, a friend gave us four milk weed plants in pots. His direction, “Give away three plants to families with children and keep the fourth for yourself.” Perhaps you know, the milk weed plant is “home” to the regal monarch butterfly. ‘Her majesty’ searches out exactly (and only) that plant’s leaves on which to lay her eggs … which then become hungry green, black and white caterpillars! Eating leaves is their sole job ~ one major part of their life cycle. We kept an eye on the chubby worm knowing that any day it would attach to a stem and shrivel up into a chrysalis.

The other day, while walking to the dining room, I noticed a new beginning or starting over. The picture puzzle that always had a lady working on it, which had been curtailed during the covid scare, had the outside edge of a puzzle started.

Lincoln, Aug. 24, 2021 – The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) at the University of Nebraska has continued its upward trajectory in securing research funding for critical projects despite the pandemic.

On 08/16/2021 at 1:36 p.m., an officer fielded a report of an assault on a child. The investigation is ongoing.

AUGUST 26, 2021 (LINCOLN) — The Nebraska State Patrol has cut the ribbon on a new Lincoln headquarters, completing a consolidation process that was decades in the making. “This marks the culmination of a major project that will provide great benefits to our NSP teammates and the citizens of Nebraska,” said Colonel John Bolduc, Superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol.