Center News Releases
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03/12/2010LYONS, NE - Did something historic happen in Ankeny, Iowa today or was it much ado about nothing? Over 600 farmers and ranchers from at least a dozen states gathered at the Des Moines Area Community College's FFA Enrichment Center for the first in a series of six agricultural antitrust and competition workshops to be hosted by USDA and the Justice Department across the nation in 2010.
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03/10/2010Washington, DC - Doug Crabtree and Anna Jones-Crabtree traveled from Helena, Montana to Washington D.C. to participate in a "New Farmer Fly-In" spearheaded by the Center for Rural Affairs, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and several other organizations. The fly-in brought new farmers and ranchers from eight different states to D.C. for meetings at the USDA and on Capitol Hill regarding beginning farmer and rancher provisions in farm bill credit and conservation programs.
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03/10/2010Lyons, NE - The Center for Rural Affairs is hosting a community conversation and reception on Friday, March 19th at Nitta's B&B on 920 16th Street in Aurora, Nebraska. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. and Center staff and board members will be on hand for conversation and questions about the work of the Center for Rural Affairs. Most importantly, they hope to hear from local residents and exchange ideas about the opportunities and challenges on the horizon for Aurora, Hamilton County and the surrounding region.
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03/08/2010LYONS, NE - The Logan Valley Leadership Program's phase III sessions will be held during March at the Center for Rural Affairs' Community Meeting Room in Lyons. Dr. Connie Reimers-Hild, Extension Educator at UNL Kimmel Education & Research Center, will present Entrepreneurial and Innovative Thinking, the first session in the third phase of the Learning to Lead in Logan Valley Program on March 17th. The meeting will run from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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03/08/2010Lyons, NE - The University of Nebraska BIT Mobile, a mobile computer lab, will be in Pender on March 15, 16 and 19, providing free computer classes. The Mobile will be set up at the Pender Public School.
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03/08/10LYONS, NE - Dr. Ronald J. Hanson, Neal E. Harlan Professor of Agribusiness in the Department of Agricultural Economics at UNL, will present a family farming seminar on March 15. The first half of Dr. Hanson's seminar, "Multi-Generation Family Farming: Family Harmony vs. Family Conflicts" will run from 7 to 8 p.m. focusing on the sometimes difficult but always crucial relationships between parents and their adult children working together on an intergenerational farm or ranch. The second hour of the seminar, entitled "Communicating as a Farm Family: Fence Posts Talking to Each Other," will run from 8 to 9 p.m. and examine how communication can help ease conflicts.
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03/04/2010Lyons, Nebraska - Less than two weeks remain for organic producers as well as farmers and ranchers transitioning their operations to organic to apply for a special USDA initiative to encourage conservation practices. The 2010 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Organic Initiative will provide $50 million nationally to farmers and ranchers who qualify for the program.
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03/01/2010LYONS, NE - According to a recently released Center for Rural Affairs' report, approximately one in three rural Americans living in communities with fewer than 2,500 residents will be uninsured by 2019. Throughout the remainder of rural America, approximately one in four residents will likely go without health care coverage and the annual cost of health care for all rural households will rise from $2,705 to nearly $4,700 on average.
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02/24/2010Kearney, NE - Over 525 people attended the Center for Rural Affairs' fourth annual Marketplace entrepreneurship conference at the Ramada Convention Center in Kearney.
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02/22/2010LYONS, NE - The third phase of the Learning to Lead in Logan Valley Program will begin Wednesday, March 17 at 6:00 p.m. with "Entrepreneurial & Innovative Thinking". Entrepreneurial individuals and leaders are needed to address the complex global issues associated with the evolving knowledge economy. This program will teach participants to become more entrepreneurial as individuals and leaders in order to keep up with the rapid rate of change in our increasingly globalized society.
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02/17/2010Rescheduled - original meetings postponed due to weather
Lyons, Nebraska - "Just about everyone wants more renewable energy. The trick is figuring out how to make the system work for your community so it actually happens," says Robert Byrnes, owner of Nebraska Renewable Energy Systems.
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02/15/2010Lyons, Nebraska - Organic producers as well as farmers and ranchers transitioning their operations to organic production have until March 12, 2010 to apply for a special USDA initiative to encourage conservation practices. The 2010 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Organic Initiative will provide $50 million nationally to farmers and ranchers who qualify for the program.
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02/15/2010LYONS, NE - Dena Beck of Minden was recently elected President of the South Platte United Chamber of Commerce for 2010. Beck, a Business Specialist with the Center for Rural Affairs' Rural Enterprise Assistance Project (REAP), accepted the additional responsibilities as President and began serving in January 2010.
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02/15/2010LYONS, NE - The Learning to Lead Program in Logan Valley has been rescheduled. Conflict Resolution, the final class of Phase II of Learning to Lead has been moved from February 24 to March 3.
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02/15/2010Lyons, NE - National Entrepreneurship Week begins this Saturday, February, 20 and lasts until February, 27. Entrepreneurship Week provides an opportunity to focus on the innovative ways in which entrepreneurship education can bring together the core academic, technical, and problem solving skills essential for future entrepreneurs and successful workers in future workplaces.
