In addition to the five students in agribusiness and 10 students in crops contests which were hosted at Black Hawk College, NCTA also sent four students to compete in meat science and 20 classes of live animal evaluation.Some contests give away hardware awards but this one was more organic themed with tool-engraved leather banners and plaques made of varnished tree wood slices, symbolic for agricultural studies.
How can we stop farmer suicides? It’s been three decades since the farm crisis swept the country, but suicide rates among farmers are still high, the second highest of any job right now. According to a recent study of workplace suicides between 2003 and 2010published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, jobs with the highest suicide rates include “protective service occupations” like police officers and firefighters, with 5.3 suicides for every 1 million workers. Farming, fishing, and forestry jobs collectively follow closely behind with a suicide rate of 5.1 per 1 million workers. Some experts put the rate at nearly twice the rate of the general population.
Nebraska Ag Students Rank High at Illinois- Ryleigh Rainey, a girl from Idaho, had never been to Minnesota or Illinois, until she was recruited to a small town college in Nebraska. Ryleigh and 18 other students from Curtis represented Nebraska very well in a series of contests at the 2015 judging conference for ag schools across the nation. Miss Rainey won the individual agribusiness award.
Nebraska Farmers Union receives grants- The Nebraska Environmental Trust Board announced funding of $169,046.00 for the project at its meeting on April 2, 2015 in Lincoln. The project is one of the 113 projects receiving $19,491,958 in grant awards from the Nebraska Environmental Trust this year. Of these, 56 were new applications and 57 are carry-over projects
How can we stop farmer suicides?- There was a lady that called saying that her husband promised that he wouldn't hurt himself, but then she couldn't find him. It was one of the greatest economic turmoils since the Great Depression. Her husband shot himself with a shotgun to kill himself.
Nebraska AG Students Rank High At Ilinois
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the five students in agribusiness and 10 students in crops contests which were hosted at Black Hawk College, NCTA also sent four students to compete in meat science and 20 classes of live animal evaluation.Some contests give away hardware awards but this one was more organic themed with tool-engraved leather banners and plaques made of varnished tree wood slices, symbolic for agricultural studies.
How can we stop farmer suicides?
ReplyDeleteIt’s been three decades since the farm crisis swept the country, but suicide rates among farmers are still high, the second highest of any job right now. According to a recent study of workplace suicides between 2003 and 2010published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, jobs with the highest suicide rates include “protective service occupations” like police officers and firefighters, with 5.3 suicides for every 1 million workers. Farming, fishing, and forestry jobs collectively follow closely behind with a suicide rate of 5.1 per 1 million workers. Some experts put the rate at nearly twice the rate of the general population.
Nebraska Ag Students Rank High at Illinois- Ryleigh Rainey, a girl from Idaho, had never been to Minnesota or Illinois, until she was recruited to a small town college in Nebraska. Ryleigh and 18 other students from Curtis represented Nebraska very well in a series of contests at the 2015 judging conference for ag schools across the nation. Miss Rainey won the individual agribusiness award.
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ReplyDeleteThe Nebraska Environmental Trust Board announced funding of $169,046.00 for the project at its meeting on April 2, 2015 in Lincoln. The project is one of the 113 projects receiving $19,491,958 in grant awards from the Nebraska Environmental Trust this year. Of these, 56 were new applications and 57 are carry-over projects
How can we stop farmer suicides?- There was a lady that called saying that her husband promised that he wouldn't hurt himself, but then she couldn't find him. It was one of the greatest economic turmoils since the Great Depression. Her husband shot himself with a shotgun to kill himself.
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