Nebraska Farmers Union

Press Releases

2008

4/18/08 - Nebraska Farmers Union To Sponsor Kleeb/Raimondo Debate

4/2/08 - Record High Carbon Markets Means Bigger Carbon Credit Checks For Farmers And Ranchers

2007

12/14/07 - NEFU Press Release On Senate Farm Bill

11/19/07 - Nebraska Farmers Union To Hold 94th Annual Convention In Grand Island December 7-8th At Howard Johnson Riverside Inn

10/25/07 - NEFU: Senate Ag Committee Farm Bill Is Positive Step

10/15/07 - Nebraska Farmers Harvest New Carbon Credit Opportunities

9/5/07 - Farmers Union Calls For Strong Ag Market Reforms In Senate Farm Bill

8/20/07 - NEFU Board Of Directors Says No To Proposed FSA Closings

7/31/07 - NEFU To Present Carbon Credit Program At NW NE NoTill Field Day

7/11/07 - "Eat Fresh, Buy Local" is Nebraska Farmers Union 2007 Youth Camp Theme

6/28/07 - NEFU and Loup Basin RC&D To Hold Meeting Featuring Information On Carbon Credit Program and C-BED Wind Development Model

6/21/07 - NEFU Supports Legislation To Prevent FSA Office Closures

5/21/07 - Governor Heineman Signing Of LB629 Ushers In A New Era For Wind Energy Development in Nebraska

5/18/07 - NEFU Applauds Governors' Ethanol Coalition Farm Bill Recommendations For Renewable Energy

4/26/07 - NEFU Statement On LB658

4/20/07 - NEFU Says The Will Of Voters Is Not Being Honored.

4/19/07 - NEFU Announces Carbon Credit Program For All Nebraska Counties And New Rangeland Management Program

2/18/07 - Nebraska Farmers Union Call On Legislature To Honor The Will Of The Voters On The Repeal Of 126

1/25/07 - Nebraska Farmers Statement On Judge Laurie Smith Camp Order On I-300 Enforcement

2006

12/15/06 - Nebraska Farmers Convention Highlights:  Farmers and Community Owned Renewable Energy

11/28/06 - Nebraska Farmers Union to Hold 93rd CONVENTION in Grand Island December 8-9, at Howard Johnson Riverside Inn

10/25/06 - Nebraska Farmers Union Opposes Initiative 421

10/18/06 - Nebraska Farmers Union Launches New Carbon Credit Program

10/16/06 -Nebraska Farmers Union Says Initiative 423 Will Raise Property Taxes

9/28/06 - Nebraska Farmers Union Continues Defense of I-300 - St. Louis, MO

9/6/06 - NEBFARMPAC Announces Friends of Family Farm Agriculture Endorsements

8/24/06 - Farmers Union Sponsors Farm Bill Listening Session At State Fair

8/15/06 - Nebraska Farmers Union Sponsored Youth Camp at Halsey 4H Camp August 6-9

8/3/06 -  Nebraska Farmers Union Board Opposes Spending Lid

5/25/06 - NEFU Calls for More Farmers and Community Ownership of Renewable Energy

4/24/06 - Farmers Union PAC Endorses HEINEMAN

4/24/06 - Farmers Union PAC Make Primary Endorsements

4/6/06 - NEFU Says Support For I-300 Stronger Than Ever

2/2/06 - House Budget Package Bad For Rural America

2005

11/2/05 - "Working Together To Harvest Rural Opportunities" is Theme for Three Nebraska Farmers Union Workshops on Rural Economic Development - (Registration form attached)

10/19/05 - Farmers Union:  Senate Committee's Agriculture Cuts Step in Wrong Direction

9/28/05 - Farmers Union Applauds Reauthorization of U.S. Grain Standards Act

9/19/05 - Nebraska Farmers Union Praises Nelson Amendment

9/16/05 - Local Farmers Attend National Farmers Union Washington Fly-in

9/9/05 - Farmers Union to Tell Policymakers of Challenges Facing Rural America - NFU Legislative Fly-in, Washington, D.C.

8/24/05 - Nebraska Farmers Union Says National Farm & Trade Policy Needs Overhaul, Not Fine Tuning

8/23/05 - Farmers Union Youths Donate Proceeds of Coop Store In Support of the Rural Response Hotline

7/30/05 - NEFU Sponsors Youth Camp at Halsey 4H Camp August 7-10

7/14/05 - NEFU Urges Congress to Vote NO on CAFTA

7/7/05 - NEFU President's Statement on National Animal ID System

6/30/05 - NEFU Says CAFTA Digs Economic Hole Deeper

6/28/05 Senate Energy Packages Gives Boost to Farmers

6/23/05 - NEFU Social Security Press Conference

6/21/05 - NEFU BOD Votes to Support Petition Drive in response to passage of LB126

 6/6/05 - Thirteen Nebraska Organizations Tell House of Representatives to Keep COOL

6/3/05 - NEFU Praises Governor Heineman's Veto of LB126

4/1/05 LB645 - NOT a April Fool's Day Joke

3/10/05 Farmers Union to Host Washington Fly-In on CAFTA, Budget Cuts, and Canadian Cattle

1/19/05 NEFU BOD Calls on Congress and Legislature to Halt Proposed USDA Final Rule Proposal to Re-Open CANADIAN Border Cattle