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Exhibit at the 2018 Nebraska Agri-Business Exposition!
We are currently gathering vendors for the 2018 Nebraska Agri-Business Exposition, January 9-10, 2018 at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. If you would like to participate with an exhibit, please visit the Exposition's Exhibitor Information Page. Handy online...
Register and Attend Area Meetings! Five Locations to Choose From
The Nebraska Agri-Business Association is conducting the annual area meetings this fall in a location near you! Please attend one of these meetings and let us know what's going on in your area and things that the association should be working on FOR YOU! We'll also...
Take A Break and Join Your Colleagues at Summer Convention
You're invited to take a break for a bit of industry education and a bit of relaxation at this year's Summer Convention, August 22-23, 2017 at the Hilton Garden Inn @ the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs. Register Now! Starting out at 1 PM on Tuesday, August 22,...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, May 21, 2017
This is the End Can't get that Jim Morrison song out of my mind. An $8.9 billion state budget for 2017-18 / 2018-19 was finalized last week, and yes there was partisan drama. Again. Generally, conservatives won the budget tussle and cut spending. Progressives believe...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, May 14, 2017
Coalesce Five legislative days remain until Speaker Jim Scheer adjourns this session sine die on May 23. Sine die is Latin for "Don't let the door hit you in the dolium on your way out." After beginning the year with a $900,000 revenue shortfall, senators delivered a...
Agricultural Economic & Technology Summit, June 13-14, 2017
Nebraska Farm Bureau is partnering with the UNL Department of Agricultural Economics, UNL Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska, and KRVN Rural Radio Network on the Agricultural Economic & Technology Summit, June 13-14, 2017 in...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, May 7, 2017
Mother of All Bills LB 461, the grand tax reform MOAB, turned out to be a dud. Governor Ricketts and Revenue Committee chair, Jim Smith, were all over this one. But, when put to senators for a vote, their count was six noses short. Who didn't vote for MOAB? All the...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, April 30, 2017
Budget "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." - George W Bush. Proponents of LB 337, the $8.9 billion main line budget bill, overcame a snarky filibuster and advanced the bill from General File to Select File. To be correct, the final budget is an...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, April 23, 2017
Tax Reform Anyone? LB 461 is a tax reform bill upon which Governor Ricketts and Revenue Committee chairman, Jim Smith, have expended some serious political capital. The bill cuts income and property taxes. Good thing, right? Well, it's not the tax panacea as...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, April 16, 2017
Making Soup Lawmaking is not supposed to be easy. Love the analogy about making soup. This 104th Legislature, 1st Session is contentious and far from easy. Much like our nation's capitol. The Right holds the majority, the Left is in the minority, and a few senators...