Seeing a few sprinkles light up the radar to the west and some mostly cloudy skies. Measurable rain however is pretty unlikely today. Landowners who oppose the keystone xl pipeline continued in oneill nebraska yesterday. Landowners in holt county are suing transcanada over a state law that granted the Keystone Xl Pipeline Company Eminent Domain for private gain they appeared in court for oral arguments in their case. No witnesses testified. All testimony had to be submitted in writing ahead of time. Back in 2013. Former governor Dave Heineman approved a nebraska route for the pipeline. But that decision is still being challenged. And if were right the statute was invalid then the governors proported approval was not an approval because he wasnt authorized to give it jessica rae the judge could make a ruling on the case as early as next month. Jessica rae a week long effort to keep kids away from drugs and alcohol got underway in sioux city. Red ribbon week kicked off last night at long
Soil has s lot of phosphorus and potassium and our crops, soybeans and corn, have a difficict time extracting those from soil. But he says cover crops help. This year. Hes testing out radishes d field peas. Tillage radish and field peas have an easier time getting it out of the soil. So they absorb it into the plant. And when they die they release it back out and then the soybean and the corn can get the nutrient easier now because its in a more organic form, said john cover crops increase the number of organisms living in the soil. It also reduces erosion. And cuts the amount of nitrates that leak into ground water. And those arent the only benefits john has reaped. I saw pretty close to a five bushel increase on my soybeans where we did it, said wilcox, plants cover crops. John says it cost him about 25 dollars per acre. To plant the crops using a crop duster. But farmers can get financial assistance. Those incentives are available to producers who may have never tried cover crops be
If you listen to politicians, there’s something wrong with our school systems. Students are being corrupted by teachers, books are dwelling on “negative” history, social media apps are ruining their