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The Latter-day Saints actively traded with American Indian and trading settlements in northern Missouri and Iowa, exchanging household goods and small amounts of cash for foodstuffs, such as hogs, grain and vegetables, and supplies for the emigration effort.
The Garfield County Frontier Fairgrounds, near Burwell, Nebraska, also known as Burwell Rodeo Ground, is a historic property with significance dating to 1922.A 40-acre (16 ha) area was listed as a historic district on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Sarpy County, Nebraska, the area around the town of Bellevue, was named after him. In 1849 a post office was established on the Iowa side of the river; it was called Nebraska. In 1850 it was called the Council Bluffs Post Office and was located at Sarpy's Point, present-day Iowa.
By 1906 he owned and 225,000 acres in Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri, renting it out to 1200 tenants. [ 10 ] On account of new agricultural technology developments between 1860 and 1970, the Corn Belt went from producing mixed crops and livestock into becoming an area focused strictly on wheat-cash planting.
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The company’s history dates back to 1874, [2] when Minneapolis-based Peavey Company built its first grain facility. In 1967 the Canadian operations began and later renamed as Peavey Mart. In 1982, Peavey was acquired by ConAgra Foods, Inc. [3] and later became part of ConAgra Trade Group. In 1984 Peavey Mart was sold to the Canadian ...
Wayne Cryts is a former Missouri farmer who protested against American grain elevator bankruptcy law in the early 1980s.. At the time, farmers who stored crops in a grain elevator did not retain an ownership interest in the crops if the elevator company went bankrupt.
Scoular (/ ˈ s k uː l r /), formally The Scoular Company, is a corporation based in Omaha, Nebraska dedicated to the buying, selling, storage, handling, and processing of grain, feed and food ingredients. The company was founded in 1892 by George Scoular and owned by the Scoular family until its purchase in 1967 by Omaha businessman Marshall ...