Livestock TB Testing Begins Next Week

June 12, 2009

15,000 Head May be Tested

Nebraska Agriculture Director Greg Ibach and State Veterinarian Dr. Dennis Hughes updated livestock producers Thursday on the bovine tuberculosis (TB) case in Rock County. The two spoke to a crowd of roughly 500 producers at the Nebraska Farm and Ranch Expo in Bassett.

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May, 2009 Weather Record

June 5, 2009

In a Nutshell: May 2009
  • Precipitation: Most sites reported below normal precipitation; but it rained somewhere in the state on 19 days.

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Market Journal: Nebraska Economy Showing Signs of Improvement

June 5, 2009 On this week's Market Journal Extension Host Doug Jose speaks with Ernie Goss, Jack MacAllister Chair in Regional Economics at Creighton University, about the state of Nebraska's economy. Goss reports that economic indicators for May were less negative than they had been for the previous four months.

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USDA: Nebraska Crop Emergence and Condition

June 5, 2009

Table 1. Corn emergence in the Corn Belt. (Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service)

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