October 2022

Army Corps of Engineers hosts fall Missouri River meeting at Steinhart Lodge

According to the National Weather Service (NWS), southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa are likely to see a third consecutive La Niña winter weather pattern in late 2022 and early 2023. Dave Pearson, senior service hydrologist with the NWS office in Omaha, was one of the featured speakers at the annual fall Missouri River Basin Water Management Division meeting hosted by the U.S.

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NDA Announces 2022-2023 NAYC members

One way the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) supports the next generation of ag leaders is through the Nebraska Agricultural Youth Council (NAYC), a group of college students working together to share their passion and knowledge about agriculture with young people across the state. NDA is proud to sponsor NAYC and announce the 2022-2023 Council members.

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A nation that’s safe

As Vladimir Putin’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine continues and China’s aggression towards Taiwan intensifies, we must take steps to ensure we have sound national security policy at home and abroad. Iran, which is undergoing turmoil over internal human rights protests, has contributed arms used in Russia’s recent attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. North Korea has also escalated its belligerence by launching a missile over Japan’s most populated island, conducting warplane flybys along its border with South Korea, and firing artillery shells into the maritime buffer zone off the coast of the Korean peninsula. At the same time, our southern border remains open, and crime is terrorizing and destroying Democrat-led cities around the country.

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