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SORGHUM PROFITABILITY SEMINAR TO BE IN RED CLOUD FEBRUARY 2The Nebraska Grain Sorghum Producers Association (NeGSPA) and Grain Sorghum Board announce their annual Sorghum Cropping Profitability Seminars. Red Cloud will be the site of one of two Nebraska Sorghum Profitability Seminars to be held the first week in February. The meeting is supported in part by the Sorghum Check-off and the University of Nebraska Extension and will be held at the Red Cloud Community Center on Thursday, February 2, with registration and refreshments starting at 8:30 a.m. The meeting is scheduled to run from 9:00 am through 3:00 pm. The other similar meeting is on Wednesday, February 1 at at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Exhibition Building in Fairbury. SCCA Bull Bonanza in Edgar February 4 If you want to see bulls on Main Street and do not want to travel to Pamploma, Spain--- then you can simply travel to Edgar, NE on Saturday, February 4. No they will not be running down the street - but instead safely confined in pens. The South Central Cattlemen Association is holding their fourth annual Bull Bonanza or Bulls on Main Street. Pens of bulls will line the street featuring consignments of bulls from cattlemen from across the south central Nebraska region. Display times will be from 10:30 a.m. through 3:30 p.m.
DOL Seeks To Limit/Control Child Labor On The Farm and Throughout the Ag IndustryWebster County 2012 Private Pesticide Applicator Training DatesWednesday, February 29th - Blue Hill Community Center - 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7th - Bladen Fire Hall - 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 21st - Webster County Museum Exhibit Hall (Red Cloud) - 1:30 p.m. Webster County Educator Receives National Distinguished Service Award Webster County University of Nebraska Extension Educator, Duane (Dewey) Lienemann, was awarded with the NACAA (National Association of County Agriculture Agents) Distinguished Service Award at the 2011 NACAA Annual Meeting and Professional Development Conference in Overland Park, KS, on August 7 -11, 2011. Lienemann was one of several honorees who represent the top two percent of the membership selected by their peers and the Director of Extension. Lienemann has been the Webster County UNL Extension Educator for 11 years, following a highly successful career of 29 years as an Agriculture Education Instructor and FFA Advisor, most of which were spent at Blue Hill High School in the same county. His extension programming emphasis includes all areas of agriculture with primarily emphasis on dry land crop, range, forage, and livestock management. His specialty area is in Beef Production. He is a Beef Quality Assurance instructor and member of the Nebraska LEDRS group. He is an active member of the South Central Cattlemen Association. His capstone program is the Cow/Calf College, held each year at the US Meat Animal Research Center near Clay Center. He also is highly involved with the 4-H program including the Webster County Fair, Premier Animal Science Events, Youth Livestock Quality Assurance, Livestock Judging, Nebraska State Fair and Ak-Sar-Ben. He served as President of Nebraska NACAA and is currently President of Nebraska Cooperative Extension Association. He was selected to the DSA honor by vote of fellow Nebraska Ag Extension Educators who forwarded his name and particulars to the National Association for consideration. Lienemann is a native of Ash Grove Township in Franklin County, Nebraska where he attended Wilcox high school. He has lived the last 38 years in Blue Hill, Nebraska where he makes his home with wife Connie. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Ag Education, Ag Economics and Agronomy in 1971 and his Master of Science Degree in Vocational Education in 1978, also from UNL. His office is located in the Webster County Courthouse in Red Cloud, NE
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