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As the 2023 crop production season begins, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will contact producers nationwide to determine their plans for the upcoming growing season.

Nebraska growers, dealers, and processors held 4.30 million cwt of potatoes in storage on February 1, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Current stocks represent 45% of the

Nebraska’s number of farms and ranches declined during 2022, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The number of farms and ranches in the state, at 44,300, was down 500 farms from 2021. Numbers of farms and ranches in Nebraska with less than $100,000 in agricultural sales decreased 500 farms from a year earlier while operations with agricultural sales of $100,000 or more was unchanged.

Community wide survey is available online at centralcity2033.com or in paper copy format at the City Offices, Library and Senior Center. Central City residents are being asked to provide their input through a community wide survey that is available online until February 29 while hard copies of the survey can be picked up at the City Offices, Senior Center, or Library and can be mailed directly no later than February 28 to FIVE RULE Rural Planning, 2123 Central Avenue, Suite D, Kearney, NE 68847 or dropped off at the city office also no later than February 28.

If you build it, the Huskers just might come. The last time that we came to you with this news it was not officially confirmed that the Bison Activity Dome will be the site of the 2023 Husker volleyball spring scrimmage on April 29, but that has now changed.