News Releases
New Blender Pump Opens up in Arcadia
Lincoln, NE-A new blender pump is now open in Arcadia at Trotter Service. This E85/blender pump is one of approximately 60 in Nebraska to offer the renewable fuel, ethanol. This station will offer unleaded, E10 and other mid-level ethanol blends including E85 and diesel. Trotter Service in Arcadia is a full service station. To find [...]
Corn Board to Meet
Lincoln, Neb. – The Nebraska Corn Board will hold its next meeting on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at the Holiday Inn-Downtown in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Board will address regular board business. The meeting is open to the public. A copy of the agenda is available by writing the Nebraska Corn Board, PO Box 95107, Lincoln, [...]
Nebraska Corn Board lauds judgment striking down California’s low carbon fuel standard
LINCOLN, NEB. — The Nebraska Corn Board celebrated the end of 2011 with a victory when Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill struck down California’s low carbon fuel standard. Judge O’Neill found the standard unconstitutional by means of violating the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. “This is a great victory for Nebraska’s ethanol and corn industries [...]
U.S. Grains Council corn mission told to expect strong Chinese demand
LINCOLN, NE – Tell your children to stay in agriculture because demand for U.S. farm products will continue. That was the overriding message members of the 2011 U.S. Grains Council’s Corn Leadership mission heard while visiting China, Japan and Vietnam earlier this month. “Discussions with the U.S. Agricultural Trade Office in Guangzhou, China, led us [...]
Nebraska Corn Board member elected vice-chair of U.S. Meat Export Federation
LINCOLN, NEB – Nebraska Corn Board member Mark Jagels, a farmer from Davenport, was elected vice-chair of the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) at the organization’s recent annual conference in Tucson, Ariz. Jagels served as USMEF secretary/treasurer over the previous year. “I had a great experience over this past year as an officer for USMEF [...]
Distillers grains research initiative yields know-how more quickly
LINCOLN, NE – A three-year initiative that created a beef cattle advisory committee to oversee a research partnership between the Nebraska Corn Board and University of Nebraska resulted in a number of important breakthroughs when it comes to feeding distillers grains to cattle. The initiative, which wrapped up this year, allowed an advisory committee to [...]
Checkoff Update October 2011
NCB Official Provides Insight on China, India Don Hutchens, executive director of the Nebraska Corn Board (NCB) took part in a recent mission to China and India in which one of the objectives was to understand China’s corn production potential. Through the US Grains Council, the China Corn Harvest Tour has taken place since 1996 [...]
Corn Harvest and the Change in Technology
Curt Friesen, from Henderson, NE, discusses how technology has changed over the years. He mentioned that his father used to harvest corn with horses and now uses GPS and state-of-the-art equipment. Curt said he has seen an immense improvement in technology in the last 30 years and wonders what the next 30 years hold! [...]
Trade agreements offer opportunities for Nebraska, U.S. agriculture
LINCOLN, NE – South Korea is one of the top five corn export markets for the United States, Colombia is poised to return to buying more U.S. corn and Panama is a growing market with potential. Thanks to Congressional approval of trade agreements with all three countries yesterday, U.S. farmers will see improved market access [...]
Nebraska Corn Board executive director provides insight into China’s corn yield estimate
LINCOLN, NE – Following its annual crop tour of China, the U.S. Grains Council released an estimate of China’s 2011 corn production, pegging the country’s crop at 6.6 billion bushels, up 5.6 percent from last year. Don Hutchens, executive director of the Nebraska Corn Board, participated in this year’s crop tour, which wrapped up last [...]
