Outside investment in farmland continues to increase, but some economists and many farmers worry deep pockets are pushing prices above what the land is worth.
Alternating extremes of heavy rainfall and drought are making it harder for the Army Corps of Engineers — which must by law maintain the Mississippi River for commerce, including the transportation of grain — to predict and plan a multi-million-dollar practice of constant dredging. In the upper reac
Critics accuse a developer of disregarding local concerns in his push to construct the state's largest pig farm. He calls himself the victim of 'selfish' residents.
A proposal for a $20 million concentrated animal feeding operation sowed distrust in Trade Lake as opponents accused the town’s chairman of backroom dealings to facilitate construction.
Foreign companies have serious ties to Nebraska agriculture, but those ties don’t often lead to ownership of Nebraska farmland — thanks partly to a 19th-century law.
Stakeholders claim biodigesters could replace fossil fuels and slow climate change. Critics fear lack of strict regulatory oversight will equal more pollution.
