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Saturday, July 04, 2009
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Statewide Ag News »
Farming the Nebraska way in Afghanistan
The man they call A.K. was the first Afghan farmer to try things the Cornhusker way.
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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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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