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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the Blackwood Creek watershed south of Hayes Center is among 55 watershed projects nationwide receiving USDA stimulus funding. Vilsack said $2 million dollars is committed to a Blackwood Creek wa...
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Southwest Nebraska Weed Management Area (SWWMA) will receive $300,000 from the Nebraska Environmental Trust for the Republican River Riparian Improvement Project. The Trust Board announced funding for the project at its meeting on April 2, i...
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“Ag Lender Magazine” recently unveiled its annual ranking of the nation’s “Top 100 Ag Banks” in its April 2009 publication. At the top of the list was Nebraska-based, family-owned Pinnacle Bank. Pinnacle was honored with the title o...
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The Nebraska Public Service Commission issued a consumer alert regarding possible violations of the federal Do-Not-Call rules by a company soliciting new or extended automobile warranties. These telemarketing calls have been received on both wirele...
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While tree windbreaks may last for 50 years or more, some older windbreaks may need renovation because of reduced effectiveness due to age, poor health or neglect, says Dennis Adams, forester with the Nebraska Forest Service. There are some q...
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■ Editor’s note: This article is one in a series about the concept and use of no tillage farming methods.By Mark WatsonPanhandle No Till Educator The producers and NRCS soil conservationists from North Dakota have shared with me the recip...
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By Carolyn LeeThe Imperial Republican If the lines at the take-out window, plus the cars dotting the parking lot are any clue, JJ’s is a busy place since opening last week. JJ’s is the former Sweden Creme, now owned by Jennifer Bell and Ja...
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LORI PANKONIN is co-publisher of Johnson Publications newspapers in Imperial, Wauneta and Grant, and part-owner of the Holyoke Enterprise in Holyoke, Colo. E-mail: ljpank@chase 3000.com We were working with a consultant from Lincoln who had come to help u...
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By Jan Schultz, The Imperial Republican News EditorBloated budgets and trillions in debt that our federal government is amassing are what last week’s “tea parties” across the country were organized to protest. You might think differently, thou...
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The tour guides who man the I-80 rest stops took a trip around Chase County Saturday, as part of an educational experience. Chase County Tourism Coordinator and Marketing Director Claudette Swanson showed them the Wauneta Roller Mills and Chateau Theater ...
