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GRAIN MARKETING WORKSHOPS Two grain marketing workshops will be offered at several sites across Southwest Nebraska starting in November to help grain producers minimize losses during this time of low prices. A complimentary lunch is

provided at each location. Workshops are funded by the Nebraska Corn Board and limited to 40 participants. In the workshop Introduc-tion to Futures and Options, Nebraska Extension educators will present strategies for using futures and options to protect farmers from ad-verse market movements. In the workshop Developing Grain Market-ing Plans, Nebraska Extension educators will discuss how to develop a

written marketing plan and understanding basis and carrying charges, using location-and commodity-specific information. Both workshops feature the Marketing in a New Era simulator and the Grain Market-ing Plan Smartphone application. McCook will host a meeting at the Red Willow County Fairgrounds, November 6th, starting at 10 a.m.

For more information contact Robert Tigner at 345-3390.

IMPROVING THE PRISON SYSTEM Gov. Pete Ricketts says the Department of Correctional Services is working to improve the prison system and crack down on staff mem-bers who smuggle contraband to inmates. A staff member was re-

cently arrested after an investigation into how synthetic marijuana was smuggled into the State Penitentiary in Lincoln. “One of the challenges you know that we have is that we’ve got to make sure we have the appropriate levels of staff in our facilities, especially at the state penitentiary and Tecumseh,” Ricketts tells reporters during a news con-

ference. Ricketts says the investigation into how K2 got into the prison with its subsequent arrest indicates Corrections took the presence of drugs seriously. The Department of Correctional Services issued a pro-gress report this week outlining initiatives it says have transformed the state prison system. Ricketts says the biggest step is offering bonuses

of $2,500 to new hires to fill vacancies at Nebraska’s two maximum security prisons: the state penitentiary in Lincoln and the prison at Te-cumseh.

IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL IS FLAWED A Nebraska Congressman says the Iran nuclear deal is flawed, but

whether the United States should pull out of the agreement is a differ-ent matter. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry says the aggressive postur-ing of Iran throughout the Middle East makes it harder to trust a frag-ile nuclear agreement. Fortenberry says the agreement in general has held, but hasn’t made a marked difference in the U.S. relationship with

Iran. “To look at this in a Pollyannaish way that the agreement has developed some new flowering of relationship is extraordinarily na-ïve,” Fortenberry says. “Yet, at the same time, to try to leverage the agreement for better outcomes with Iran is an absolute necessity, even potentially changing aspects of it if we can get international agree-ment.” Fortenberry faults the agreement for failing to curtail the nu-

clear ambitions of Iran and for failing to rein in Iran’s sponsorship of terrorist groups throughout the Middle East. Fortenberry, a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, voted against the original Iran nuclear agreement in 2015. President Donald Trump earlier this month criti-

cized the Iran nuclear deal and threatened to pull out of it.

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SPORTS The McCook Lady Bison volleyball team split a pair of matches last night at the high school gym. The MHS girls won the first set vs Minden, but dropped the next two. McCook came back for a two-set win over Chase County in the nightcap. The Lady Bison will wrap up

the regular season with a road trip to Norfolk and the GNAC Tour-nament on Saturday. MHS is the third-seed and will face sixth-seeded Norfolk in the opener. The McCook Community College Lady Indian volleyball team ensured a regular season winning record with a straight-set win over Eastern Wyoming Tuesday night at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. MCC’s wins came 25-20, 25-12, 25-19 on sophomore night. With the win the Indians improve to 18-16 with one regular season game left Friday at Sterling, Colo., against Northeastern. While the win assures MCC of a winning regular season, it also puts the Lady Indians as the fourth seed in

the Region IX tournament Nov. 2 at Scottsbluff and will play the fifth seed Lamar. The Nebraska football team practiced for approximately two hours on Tuesday afternoon in full pads, splitting time between the Hawks Championship Center and on the Ed and Joyanne Gass prac-tice fields. Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco spoke to the media after practice about preparing for a Purdue team which has used two quarterbacks extensively this season. Both Elijah Sindelar and David Blough have played in all seven games for the Boilermakers,

and the pair have combined for over 1,650 passing yards and 14 touchdowns. “The two quarterback system doesn’t seem to change the play selection” Diaco said. “The way they operate with person-nel, the way they operate with formation and the way they operate play selection. I don’t think they alter too much based on one per-son or the next. Tactically, there is not much of a difference.”

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