USDA To Collect Corp Acreage Data Across The State Lincoln, NE ¨CUSDA¡¯s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will spend the first two weeks of June surveying thousands of farmers across Nebraska to get a clear indication of the acreage and supply of major commodities for 2012.
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Nebraska Wheat Production Forecast And Hay Stocks Lincoln, Neb., May 10, 2012 -- Based on May 1 conditions, Nebraska's 2012 winter wheat crop is forecast at 59.7 million bushels, down 9 percent from last year’s crop and the smallest crop since 1954 due to fewer acres planted, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office. Average yield is forecast at 47 bushels per acre, up 2 bushels from last year and 6 bushels above the ten-year average.
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Household Water Well System Grant Program Announcement of Application Deadlines and Funding Lincoln, Nebraska May 7, 2012--USDA Rural Development’s Rural Utilities Service has announced, in the May 3, 2012 Federal Register, grant funds to be competitively awarded for the Household Water Well System (HWWS) Grant Program for fiscal year 2012. RUS will make grants to qualified private nonprofit organizations to establish lending programs for homeowners to construct or repair household water wells for an existing home.
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