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About
Us
The
Nebraska Dry Bean Commission consists of nine members: four
grower representatives and three processor representatives appointed
by the Governor and two additional grower representatives appointed
by the commission. Commissioners all serve three-year terms.
The
Commission is funded by a fee assessed on dry edible beans grown
in Nebraska and sold through commercial channels.
Effective with the 2004 crop year harvest, the assessment rate shall
be 10 cents per hundredweight upon all dry beans grown in the state
and sold through commercial channels.
The assessment shall be 6.67 cents per hundredweight for grower and
3.33 cents per hundredweight for processors. The assessment rate
shall be
7.5 cents per hundredweight for harvested dry beans as of July 1, 1994. Two-thirds of this is paid
by the grower; one-third of this fee is paid by the “first purchaser”
or processor of the crop.
Fee collections, field audits of first purchasers,
and various other accounting functions are performed by the Nebraska
Department of Agriculture, under contract with the Commission.
Meet
the Members
Growers
District
I
David
Howell, Morrill
(308)
247-3457
District
II
Rodney
Loose, Mitchell
(308)
623-2002
District
III
Jack
Revelle, Harrisburg
(308)
436-4275
District
IV
Kenneth Rhoades,
Big Springs
(308)
287-2297
At
Large District I & II
Mark
Watson,
Alliance
(308)
760-5259
At
Large District III & IV
Dave
Brown, Champion
(308)
882-3992
Processors
Donald Orr
State Line Bean Producers
Bridgeport
(308)
772-4381
cell or (308) 778-6926
Charles Witmer
Kelley
Bean Company
Scottsbluff
(308)
635-2338
Dale
Eirich
Trinidad/Benham
Bayard
(308)
586-1010
Ex
Officio
Linda Boechkner,
Interim Director
Panhandle Research & Extension
Center
Scottsbluff
(308)
632-1254
Office
Lynn
Reuter
(308)
632-1258
Nebraska
Dry Bean Commission · 4502 Avenue I · Scottsbluff,
NE 69361
308-632-1258 phone · 308-632-1371 fax ·office@nebraskadrybean.com