Become A-FAN Blog
Discussions regarding farming and ranching in Nebraska-
With farmers’ market season in full swing, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture’s (NDA) Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) is back. The program, in its 13th year, provides low-income senior citizens with coupons that can be exchanged for fresh locally grown fruits, vegetables, herbs and honey from NDA certified produce vendors.
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Dairy farmers are business people through and through, and do things that make economic sense. Those same practices not only help the environment, but are also socially responsible for local communities and for our planet. This certainly is the case at Prairieland Dairy in Firth, Neb.
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In the four years I’ve served as Deputy Secretary, I’ve talked with thousands of women in agriculture – from young women thinking about entering farming to older women who have been tilling the soil for decades. Each of their stories is powerful on its own. But taken together, they have been an inspiration to the entire country. And today, we know that there are nearly one million of these stories around the country – nearly one million women farming and ranching on America’s working lands.
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Greetings from Classic Dairy! Have you heard? June is Dairy Month!! You would think that should mean we get to take the month off, wouldn’t you? Well that just isn’t true.
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Curriculum specialists from the Nebraska Department of Education heard first-hand from farmers about the importance of agriculture to the state’s economy and how the food they produce gets to our dinner tables. They traveled to three Eastern Nebraska farms on the “Connecting Classrooms to Their Source of Food, Fiber and Fuel” farm tour on May 14.
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Get moo-vin’ for June Dairy Month and virtually experience life on a Midwest dairy farm! Midwest Dairy Association, which works on behalf of more than 9,500 dairy farm families across 10 states, launched the Dairy Farm PinTourist Contest on Pinterest giving everyone the opportunity to go beyond the dairy aisle to “see” what life is like on the farm, and the care and pride dairy farmers take in producing wholesome, nutritious dairy foods.
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I have to admit that as a child and teenager, I never gave a thought to where my food came from. I took both the food and my mother’s wonderful home cooked dinners completely for granted. As a dedicated athlete who trained four hours a day, I consumed a lot of food—thinking about nutrition and fuel for my body, but never giving a second to think about what it took to grow it.
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Want to be sure you're summer food preparation, cooking and storage skills are in tact? Take this quiz!
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Did you know that Lt. Gov. Lavon Heidemann has declared that May is Egg Month in the beautiful State of Nebraska?
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I like to call myself an educated farm kid and know the difference between the front end and back end of a pig. However, I am still a little clueless when it comes to cooking the pork that comes from that pig. Thankfully, the National Pork Board is working to help consumers, like me, understand our pork chops better.
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