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2020 Tree Sales

Thursday, January 9, 2020

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Wind farm company to visit with NCORPE

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

By TODD VON KAMPEN todd.vonkampen@nptelegraph.comNov 2, 2019Board members of NCORPE, the water augmentation project in southwest Lincoln County, have invited the developer of four northeast Nebraska wind farms to make a public presentation Monday in Curtis.A representative o...

NCORPE chairman: Retaining ownership of land is prudent

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

By TERRY MARTIN Chairman, NCORPE Board of Directors - Oct 23, 2019The NCORPE Board of Directors would like to clarify some issues relative to taxes and land ownership in Lincoln County. Since 2012, NCORPE (the Nebraska Cooperative Republican Platte Enhancement project)...

Rock Creek Augmentation Project Water Levels, Usage Trend Positive

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

For the 2015-2019 Republican River Compact compliance period, there is approximately a 16,000 acre foot positive balance. Over the last several years, Nebraska has exceeded its Compact allocation by approximately 9,300 acre feet but Kansas has not requested that water...

NCORPE: Board has Fiduciary Responsibility to Irrigators

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The NCORPE Board of Directors would like to clarify some issues relative to taxes and land ownership in Lincoln County. Since 2012, NCORPE has paid approximately $1.8 million in taxes and in-lieu of taxes. The amount NCORPE has paid is the same amount Lincoln County would ha...

UNL and URNRD Crop Water-Usage Project Underway

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

New water-usage tools for irrigators in the Upper Republican NRD will be improved under a joint project with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.The URNRD and UNL have erected an Eddy Covariance (EC) System in Perkins County. The EC tower measures the movement and speed of ed...

Adventure Camp About the Environment (ACE) Scholarship Application

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Upper Republican NRD is offering a total of 6 scholarships to 6th, 7th and 8th graders interested in attending ACE Camp on June 16-19 in Halsey, Neb. The scholarships are for $108 apiece, cutting the cost of the camp from $215 to $107 for each child awarded one. Complete...

URNRD Appoints Two New Board Members - Filling All Seats

Friday, April 5, 2019

The Upper Republican Natural Resources District Board of Directors has recently appointed two new members to the board, filling all the vacant subdistrict seats.Retired rancher Harry Merrihew is the representative of subdistrict 5 encompassing the east side of the City of Im...

URNRD Fills Open Board Member Seats

Thursday, April 4, 2019

The Upper Republican Natural Resources District Board of Directors has appointed Janice Stroup, who lives in Eastern Dundy County, to the Board to fill the Subdistrict 1 seat, formerly held by Mick Strand. Stroup is an agronomist as well as a farmer who owns and operates a c...

State Grant, NRD to Provide Cost Share For Soil Moisture Probes

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

IMPERIAL, Neb. – Cost-share funds that pay for one-half of the cost of soil moisture probes are available from the Upper Republican NRD.The NRD is accepting applications from ag producers/landowners in Chase, Dundy and Perkins Counties to get reimbursed for the cost of up...