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The article reports on the resolution of the Nebraska Beef Council on administering the current $1-per-head national beef checkoff in Nebraska which is supported by Nebraska Cattlemen in order to enhance beef promotion and education efforts.

The author argues the ill-generated theories about climate change and its damaging effect on Nebraska's economy.

The article reviews the history of the proposed boundary of Illinois that could have ceded 51 miles of the territory to Wisconsin in 1848. Topics covered include moving the Illinois border that has added farmland and lakefront through congressional delegate Nathaniel Pope and linkage of Illinois and Mississippi Rivers to the Great Lakes. Also mentioned are shifts in waterways due to glaciers that realigned the Mississipi River and the siesmic activity that lowered Cache River Valley elevation.

The article focuses on the financial issues which may be significant in 2013.

The article focuses on the rising values of grasslands especially throughout the Corn Belt in Midwest. It mentions that rising values will affect the beef producers because pasture has trailed up behind farmland. It also includes the suggestion of selling of farmlands by the economist Bill Helming due to the worse economic conditions of the U.S. in the forthcoming years. INSETS: If you sell, invest that cash wisely;Recent analysis shows farmland bubble possible.