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State administrator talks taxes, water at local Farm Bureau annual meeting

Nebraska Farm Bureau Chief Administrator Rob Robertson spoke on the organization's commitment to agriculture and what it was doing to overcome challenges in the state at last Thursday's annual meeting of the Kimball-Banner County Farm Bureau.

Robertson, who last visited Kimball County in 1993, said the success of the Farm Bureau comes from its members and grassroots support. There are 85 chapters statewide and there are currently 247 members in the Kimball-Banner County chapter.

"I think what makes us a difference-maker in the advocacy world, the lobby world, in what we do to tell agricultu...