FUI teams up with Expedition League to support Great Plains Food Bank

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Farmers Union Insurance has teamed up with the state’s Expedition League baseball teams to offer fans limited-edition baseball jerseys in exchange for food items or cash donations to the Great Plains Food Bank.   “The Expedition League is proud to partner with two great organizations, Farmers Union Insurance and the Great Plains Food Bank,” Steve Wagner, president of the Expedition League, […]

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Agri-Kid of the Week

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Emery Straub of Casper, Wyoming is used to the attention she gets when she helps put out salt and mineral.  

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The Lessons Learned with Rodeo 

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To many of us, Independence Day is celebrated with rodeo.  I hope that as you are celebrating this year with big beef burgers and a rodeo, and hopefully no fireworks due to the extreme fire danger in this drought, you take some time to reflect on this amazing country that we are lucky to live in.  I am pretty sure […]

Grilling Over, Still Record Prices

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The daily spot Choice box beef cutout ended the week on Friday, June 25 at $304.56, which was $18.72 lower compared to previous Friday – now $33 lower over the last two weeks which is normal after Father’s Day. However, it is still much higher than all previous years. Last year it was $207.17 on the same Friday, which was […]

Bill to Reform the Checkoff Reintroduced in U.S. House 

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The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM), Animal Wellness Action (AWA), Animal Wellness Foundation (AWF), and National Dairy Producers Organization (NDPO) applauded U.S. Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) for introducing the Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act.  The OFF Act was designed to reform and bring accountability and transparency to reform the USDA’s Commodity Checkoff Programs that […]