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2021 Nebraska Agri- Business Exposition Cancelled. Exposition Exhibitors Support Expanded 2021 Summer Convention In Kearney
The Board of Directors of the Nebraska Agri-Business Association has made the difficult decision to cancel the February 2021 Nebraska Agri-Business Exposition. After reviewing every possible way to go forward, we were ultimately faced with the realization many would...
Nebraska Agri-Business Association Supplies Comments At Hearing
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture held a hearing on October 14, 2020 for the proposed amendment of the Nebraska Administrative Code, Title 25, Chapter entitled Pesticide Regulations. The regulations are being amended to be consistent with the Pesticide Act as...
Association Cancels Summer Convention; COVID-19 Cited As Reason
With continuing concerns surrounding the spread of COVID-19, the Association Board of Directors has decided to cancel this year's Summer Convention. Late August is usually a great time to join together and network with peers. It was a tough decision because we all...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, August 16, 2020
Long as God Can Grow It Like a house guest who overstays his welcome, Acrimony languished in the George Norris Chamber for the legislative session's final three days. Short tempers and sensitive feelings don't make for good lawmaking, but senators completed the...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, August 9, 2020
The Room Where it Happens Governor Ricketts signed the $9.3 billion adjusted state budget without so much as a single line-item veto. Hrumph! Who doesn't enjoy a good veto override battle on the floor of the Legislature? The Super Seven emerged from "the room where it...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, August 2, 2020
Step Right Up Big News!! The "Super Seven" (not to be confused with the previous Gang of Ten) may have arrived at a compromise to reduce property taxes. The Legislature's Bill Drafters are writing an amendment to Priority Bill, LB 930 so we can actually read the...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, July 26, 2020
He Said, She Said Before Monday, all state senators had not been in the same room since March 25. As the COVID interrupted legislative session came to order, a certain awkwardness was to be expected until the ship righted itself. From the vantage point of a 55" flat...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, July 19, 2020
Beginning of the end Tomorrow, senators return for the 44th day of this 60-day legislative session. While not cornteened, the 49 senators will be socially distanced and plexiglassed until the final gavel drop on August 13. Coincidentally, tomorrow's agenda shows 44...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, July 11, 2020
Are you kidding me? It's going to happen. Speaker Scheer has summoned the whole Capitol Gang to return a week from Monday, in hopes of completing the final seventeen days of this COVID interrupted legislative session by August 13. The process will not be normal;...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, July 5, 2020
$$$ Enjoy the fireworks last night? Then you will get a real kick out of the remaining 17 days in the Unicameral’s session beginning July 20. Let’s begin with that top-of-mind topic – Tax Receipts! To be more precise, Nebraska’s Net General Fund tax receipts for the...