The Fence Post: Ag News

09/18/2024

🥩 America’s looming cattle crisis🥩 Volpe: Harris transparency proposal on food costs good, price controls bad🥩 Newhouse foreign farmland purchase bill pas...

09/17/2024

Fritzler Farm Park announced the grand opening of its 2024 season on Sunday, Sept. 15, marking a milestone 25th anniversary.

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09/17/2024

I stepped back into history this week when I was invited to fly out of the Stratobowl in a hot air balloon.

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I stepped back into history this week when I was invited to fly out of the Stratobowl in a hot air balloon. July 28, 1934, was called the beginning of the Space Age when Explorer...

09/17/2024

Harold James Unrein, 86, passed away peacefully on August 9th, 2024, at his home, surrounded by his loving family.

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November 7, 1937 – August 9, 2024 Harold James Unrein, 86, passed away peacefully on August 9th, 2024, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. Born on November 7, 1937, Harold’s life was a...

09/16/2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump revealed their priorities for American ag in responses provided by their campaigns to a questionnaire distributed by the AFBF.

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09/16/2024

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species.

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09/16/2024

Farm milk prices are heading higher again, following a small backtrack in July.

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09/16/2024

Becoming a tight-knit community within the sport, retired clowns and bullfighters saw a need to get-together, and one of the best in the business, Karl Doering, organized the first Rodeo Clown Reunion in 1974 in his home state of Oregon.

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09/16/2024

Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., said some of the farmers he met with this week “want us to consider doing a two-year ad hoc package that would bolster the safety net for 2024 and 2025 crop years.”

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09/16/2024

I haven’t talked about Nevah’s and her best friend’s eight-day river cruise that started in Nashville, Tenn., on the Cumberland River and ended in Memphis on the Mississippi River.

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I haven’t talked about Nevah’s and her best friend’s eight-day river cruise that started in Nashville, Tenn., on the Cumberland River and ended in Memphis on the Mississippi River. She returned home with a lot...

09/15/2024

FFA youth from around the Panhandle came together on Wednesday, Aug. 28, for the WESTCO-University of Nebraska-Lincoln FFA Field Day in Gering and at the Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center in Scottsbluff.

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09/15/2024

I made a few observations at the concert though that gave me both hope, and grave concern for our future.

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My wife and I recently enjoyed a Cody Johnson concert as a mutual anniversary present. The concert was beyond amazing, a couple nights camping in the Black Hills was about as relaxing and rejuvenating a...

09/14/2024

This year I worked with a grower in Morrill County who had three full circles of irrigated winter wheat seriously infected with common bunt.

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09/14/2024

I am puzzled as to why animal rights groups aren’t putting a stop to this wolf trafficking operation in Colorado and protecting these wolves from this cruel and inhumane treatment at the hands of people who should know better.

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The saga of the capture of six wolves from the Copper Creek wolf pack should be a lesson for everyone involved. First, you can’t just move wild animals around like chess pieces. How would you...

09/14/2024

The 2024 Meeker Mustang Makeover, held on Aug. 24, will be remembered as a landmark event, shattering records and capturing the hearts of all who attended.

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09/14/2024

I always wondered which would be worse, losing one’s eyesight or losing one’s hearing?

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I always wondered which would be worse, losing one’s eyesight or losing one’s hearing? I can now answer that question definitely because I’m gradually doing both and I can say that losing one’s eyesight is...

09/13/2024

Crops in the North Platte Valley and the Panhandle are doing well. This is good for the growers as irrigation deliveries will shut down beginning Sept. 16.

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09/13/2024

Blackshirt is long on innovation, literally from the ground up. Roller-compacted concrete makes up the pen floor surfaces, making the pens impermeable to water. This has a positive effect on cattle performance and health without the mud, and by preventing contact with soil, the smell of money — along with flies and dust — is greatly reduced.

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09/13/2024

Councilman Darrell Watson, who represents District 9 where Superior Farms is located, said the proposal was not borne from the community and the animal rights group behind it sought no input from stakeholders in the community. It will, he said, hurt his constituents.

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09/13/2024

09/13/2024

According to a spokesperson for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on Sept. 10, 2024, a gray wolf was found dead in Grand County, Colorado. As a federally listed species under the Endangered Species Act, the service is investigating and will conduct a necropsy.

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09/12/2024

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security held a hearing today titled From Gas to Groceries: Americans Pay the Price of the Biden-Harris Energy Agenda.

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09/12/2024

The Biden administration is opposed to the bill introduced by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., to clamp down on the sale of U.S. farmland to China and other “adversaries.”

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09/12/2024

House Ag Appropriations Subcommittee and the House Ag Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture and Horticulture Subcommittee members questioned Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack about problems that have resulted in Native Americans and elderly Americans being without a dependable supply of food.

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09/12/2024

The House today, Sept. 12, passed the Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act introduced by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash.

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09/11/2024

USDA is accepting applications through its updated Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish Program or ELAP to provide financial assistance to eligible dairy producers who incur milk losses due to highly pathogenic avian influenza

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09/11/2024

Nebraska Extension will host an Introduction to Schedule F, Tax Planning for Farms and Ranches Workshop on Thursday, Sept. 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Scottsbluff.

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09/11/2024

This brand new course will be taught by experienced Natural Resources Conservation Service specialists and other grazing educators.

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09/10/2024

Join us at the Adams County 4-H Open House to discover what 4-H has to offer, participate in hands-on activities, meet some furry or scaly friends up close, and savor tasty treats while you mingle.

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09/10/2024

USDA and the National Farmers Union signed a memorandum of understanding for the NFU to help address staffing levels in the FSA county offices.

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