But the industry has been slow to take off, even though hemp grows like a literal weed in Nebraska, as evidenced by roadside-ditch plants that climb 9 feet tall and taller. The state currently has 62 licensed hemp growers, up from an initial 10 growers licensed in This year, acres were permitted for planting hemp outdoors, along with , square feet in greenhouses.
Currently, there are only two hemp processing facilities in the state, one in Pleasanton and another in Omaha. So, he said, attention has shifted to growing hemp for its fibers, which can be used in construction materials and clothing, and for its seed and meal, which can be used as animal and pet feed.
Companies producing plant-based hamburger are also looking at using protein-rich hemp meal, Bish said. Sweetwater Hemp Company, located in the central Nebraska farm town of Pleasanton, started producing CBD earlier this year and makes a variety of products, including ointments, edibles and smokable flowers, that have been billed as effective in treating joint pain and anxiety and as a sleep aid.
Ice-water extraction produces a purer product, according to Brett Mayo, chief of marketing and extraction for Sweetwater Hemp. Right now, the Bader brothers and Naumann market their sunglasses and other products at trade shows and farmers markets, and via their Hemp3D. They are producing some custom orders, such as hemp plastic keychains imprinted with a logo, and a plate for tailgating that includes a handy holder for a beverage.
They also make hemp chess sets, and a line of bowls and display boxes, as well as can openers, guitar picks and earrings. As for the future, the brothers are looking to rent a facility and expand production, and hoping to lure investors so they can upgrade the molds they use to fashion their sunglasses. The invention of the round baler is credited to the Luebben family of Sutton, with the patent issued in the early s. This advertisement of Ummo Luebben circulated in and mentions a Beatrice manufacturer of the invention.
Appropriately located in a former horse stable, the Ford Livery Company at Howard Street was America's first car rental company, dreamed up in by Joe Saunders. He and his brothers expanded their company, later renamed Saunders Drive It Yourself System, to 56 cities by They sold to Avis in Cary Steele checks one of his seven computer monitors while taking a call in at the Lincoln Emergency Communications Center.
Although the system was first used in Alabama, Lincoln is credited as the home of the system's invention. Inspiration for the chocolate-coated ice cream bar came from a candy store in Onawa, Iowa, in Many variations of the delicious treat are available in grocery and convenience stores worldwide. Union Pacific Railroad mechanical engineering employees determine a comfortable speed at which the world's first ski chairlift should operate during a test at the railroad's Omaha railcar and locomotive repair shop complex in the summer of The next time you sit on a ski lift on the way to the top of a mountain, think of bananas and the Union Pacific Railroad.
Seventy-five years ago, Jim Curran, a structural engineer with U. His design called for replacing the hooks for bananas with chairs for skiers to sit on while wearing skis.
The chairs would be suspended from a single cable running overhead. Curran's idea was so out of the box for its day that his co-workers thought it was too dangerous and his boss tried to shelve it. Fortunately, Charlie Proctor, a consultant brought in by the railroad to help plan the Sun Valley Resort in Idaho, saw Curran's design, which he had slipped in with some approved designs, and thought otherwise.
Proctor, a famous skier from Dartmouth College, convinced the railroad's top management to allow Curran to make his idea a reality. This winter ski season, the Union Pacific and Sun Valley Resort are marking the 75th anniversary of the world's first chairlift operation, which was invented not in the mountains but in the flatlands of Nebraska in Omaha. The railroad did so to serve a need, "and it turned out to be groundbreaking for the skiing industry," he said. During the s, Union Pacific Chairman W.
Harriman saw Americans beginning to embrace winter sports and knew his railroad operated through some of the most scenic and mountainous territory in the western United States, according to the railroad's history.
Harriman's vision: Develop a world-class winter sports resort served by the Union Pacific. Other railroads were thinking the same way. Harriman enlisted Austrian sportsman Count Felix Schaffgotsch to find land for such a resort. In winter , the count came across the area that would become the world-famous Sun Valley Resort in south-central Idaho, about miles northeast of Boise. Based on Schaffgotsch's recommendation, the railroad bought 4, acres adjacent to the Sawtooth Mountain National Forest.
The Sawtooth Mountains, running east and west, would protect the future resort from northern winds. The mountains also surrounded a small basin, with hills and slopes largely free of timber.
Snowfall and sunshine were abundant. And natural hot springs would provide outdoor swimming year-round. Meanwhile, nearly 1, miles away in Omaha, members of the railroad's engineering department were investigating ways to transport skiers up slopes, including by rope tows, J-bars and cable cars. But those designs were put aside after Curran's chairlift idea was championed by Proctor.
Soon prototypes of the lift were being built and tested at the railroad's locomotive and railroad car repair shops, on land that is now home to the Qwest Center Omaha and the new downtown baseball stadium. To help determine how fast a chairlift should travel up a mountainside, engineers attached one to the side of a truck for tests.
Because it was summer and relatively flat in Omaha, engineers wore roller skates to simulate skis running over snow. Their conclusion: 4 to 5 mph would be a comfortable speed to pick up and drop off skiers. It's the summer of , in Omaha, as the world's first snow ski chairlift is ready for a round of testing to determine a comfortable speed for snow skiers to get on and off the lift. The world's first two first snow ski chairlifts were debuted by Union Pacific Railroad at the opening of its Sun Valley, Idaho ski resort in December Courtesy Union Pacific Railroad.
As with anything new, it took skiers awhile to get used to the newfangled invention that changed the sport forever. In , year-old Carl A. Swanson borrowed enough money from his sisters to travel from his native Sweden to Omaha. Without knowing a word of English, he began working on a farm near Wahoo, then moved to Omaha, where he continued studying English, business and accounting. While working in a grocery store, he met John Hjerpe, who sold produce for farmers on a commission, and in went to work for him.
Although the enterprise was intended to be called the Hjerpe Commission Co. With Ellison's death at the beginning of World War I, the corporation assumed his stock and began moving seriously into butter production and, a short time later, into poultry in general. Swanson bought out Hjerpe's interest in but retained the name Jerpe. About , Clarence Birdseye developed fast-freezing as a method of not only preserving food but also retaining fresh flavor, which had not worked well with conventional freezing.
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