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Producing Fuel for the Future in the Midwest

April 05, 2011 Vicki Schurman, USDA Nebraska Public Information Officer

Nebraska Rural Development State Director Maxine Moul was joined by South Dakota State Director Elsie Meeks and Iowa Area Director Theresa Jordison on March 30th to recognize Ag Processing Inc. (AGP) headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with a plaque for their production of advanced biodiesel fuels. The...

Energy Rural

Recipe for Recovery of Rural Communities

February 08, 2011 Nebraska Rural Development State Director Maxine Moul and Vicki Schurman

Rural communities will play a critical role in the nation's economic recovery, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Omaha, Nebraska on January 28, 2011. Vilsack pointed out that producers learned well about the dangers of debt during the 1980s’ farm crisis and took heed, which has placed them...

Conservation Rural

Land Conservation Program Celebrates 25 Years of Creating and Protecting Wildlife Habitat Protection

February 03, 2011 Joanna Pope, NRCS Nebraska

It’s not every day that a civil servant gets to feel like a rock star. But at the 2011 National Pheasant Fest in Omaha, Nebraska this past weekend, employees of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Farm Service Agency (FSA) were a bit like celebrities to thousands of hunters and...

Conservation

Secretary Vilsack Addresses Nebraska Students and Ag Industry Leaders-Says Rural America is Leading the Way in Biofuels Research

February 01, 2011 Tanya Brown, USDA Farm Service Agency Public Information Officer

In an address last month to students of the Peter Kiewit Institute and members of Nebraska’s agriculture industry, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack cited numerous examples of how USDA is meeting President Obama’s challenge to Americans to “out innovate, out educate and out build the competition...

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