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Lincoln, NE - Governor Dave Heineman recently announced the appointment of Curtis Friesen of Henderson to the Nebraska Corn Board. Curtis will represent District 3 in East Central Nebraska.
Curtis graduated from Henderson High School in 1973 and continued his education at Southeast Community College in Milford. In 1975 Curtis graduated from the Diesel Technology program.
Curtis and his wife Nancy have been married for 33 years. They have four children and three grand children, and have been farming in Henderson since 1976. This year Nancy has joined Curtis on the farm full time after working off the farm for many years. Curtis says, "Farming hasn’t always been easy, but I have never found a better job yet."
Curtis and Nancy raise yellow corn, white corn and soybeans. Curtis uses best management practices that fit each farm specifically. Some of those practices include ridge till and no till.
Public service is nothing new for Curtis. In 1977 he was elected to the Hamilton County Groundwater Conservation District. In 2004 he was narrowly defeated in a run for the 24th district seat in the legislature. Besides serving on the Nebraska Corn Board, Curtis also serves on the Governor’s Water Policy Taskforce, Chairman of the Board of the Upper Big Blue Natural Resource District, Chairman of the Hamilton County Corn Growers and President of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce. Curtis says, "I firmly believe each of us can and should be involved in helping shape policy that affects us.""What I bring to the table is a willingness to listen, learn and work hard to support and promote the best Ag production system in the world. We are capable of producing both food and fuel and will most likely overproduce again. Our checkoff dollars are more important than ever, we have finally created the demand that we have sought and now we need to defend that goal that we have achieved. We cannot sit back and relax; we must look to the future and find other ways to help our industry remain competitive in the world markets."
The Nebraska Corn Board is a self-help program, funded and managed by Nebraska corn farmers. Producers invest in the program at a rate of ¼ of a cent per bushel of corn sold. Nebraska corn checkoff funds are invested in programs of market development, research and education.
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