Nebraska

 

 

Agriculture has historically been the backbone of Nebraska's economy. However, Nebraska is attempting to diversify its economy and has been successful in attracting new business, in large part because of its location near western coal and oil deposits. Other major industries include machinery manufacturing, transportation equipment and finance.  

AGRICULTURE/FOOD

The largest portion of the state's labor force is employed in agriculture, either directly or indirectly—as farm workers, as factory workers in the food-processing and farm-equipment industries, or as providers of related services.  It ranks #4 in US in total agricultural receipts

Nebraska farms still tend to be owned by single persons or families rather than by large corporations.  Some of the leading sate's agg products are cattle, corn, hogs, and soybeans. Nebraska is also home to ConAgra, the nation's largest flour miller and a producer of broiler chickens and crop-protection chemicals. The largest category of Nebraska exports was processed foods with 2006’s total of $948.4 million.

Recently Nebraska has been suffering from a drought which has effected a lot of the farms.

MANUFACTURING

 

The second largest category of Nebraska 2006 exports was machinery manufactures at $578.5 million, or 16.0 percent of total exports. Transportation equipment exports was the third leading export category.

 

Chemical manufactures, $318.9 million, was the 5th leading category of 2006 Nebraska exports.

 

Transportation, Warehousing, Distribution, Logistics

Nebraska's central location makes it an ideal transportation hub. Interstate-80, arguably the nation’s busiest intercontinental Highway, stretches 482 miles from one end of the state to the other. Seven national north south highways bisect the state, providing companies with ready access to the NAFTA trade corridor. The state also is served by two Class I rail systems.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s

 

Biosciences and Technology

-$24 million Chemical Engineering complex is largely dedicated to bioprocessing, including a planned GMP pilot fermentation plant for Phase I/II clinical materials.

-In Lincoln, the George W. Beadle Center for Genetics and Biomaterials Research, is a $32 million, 140,000 sq. ft. facility located on UNL’s main campus. The center also houses the UNL Center for Biotechnology, the Nebraska Center for Virology, the Redox Biology Center, and the UNL Plant Science Institute. Cooperative UNL/UNMC research programs are focused on the development of new technologies and technology spin-off companies.

 

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