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Friday, July 03, 2009
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Feature Story»
 For the past six months a Nebraska National Guard team has taught Afghan farmers how to irrigate, rotate crops and grow better corn and wheat. The Nebraskans have also surely run headfirst into Afghanistan's worsening reality: Increased danger, unreliable electricity, farmers who don't know how to read or write, the ever-present fear of the Taliban and other militant groups.
A.K. watched closely as the Nebraska National Guard members — many of them Nebraska farm boys — demonstrated how to grow grapes above ground instead of down in the dirt.
He listened intently as the members of the Nebraska agricultural development team explained the value of drip irrigation — why it would work better than flooding his crops with water.
So A.K. banged some concrete posts into the ground, strung two strands of wire on them and built himself a uniquely Afghan grapevine on his land north of Kabul.
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Regional Ag News »
JBS Swift beef recall expanded
JBS Swift Beef Co. of Greeley, Colo., which operates a beef slaughter plant in Grand Island, expanded its voluntary beef recall over the weekend to include about 380,000 pounds of products because of possible E. coli contamination.
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NDA announces results of first week of TB testing
Nebraska Director of Agriculture (NDA) Greg Ibach today announced the results of the first week of testing in the ongoing bovine tuberculosis (TB) case. All TB test results were negative on the approximately 1,700 head of cattle tested during the week of June 15-21, he said. An additional 3,300 head of cattle were tested last week, with the results pending, for a total of approximately 5,000 animals tested.
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Sandhills native new coordinator for Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition
Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition recently contracted Marcy Hunter as the NGLC coordinator. In this role, Hunter will be implementing workshops and tours across the state, handling grant fulfillment, and conducting communications and public awareness for the organization as part of her job responsibilities. She also oversees the Cowboy Logic Stewardship Network and the NGLC Rangeland Monitoring Program, and serves as the Nebraska representative of the national Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative. — Full Story »
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