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Union Pacific Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit jumped 24 percent as the nation's largest freight railroad operator increased prices and hauled more cargo.
TD Ameritrade said Tuesday that fiscal first-quarter net income grew 5 percent and revenue was almost unchanged as trading activity slowed amid worries about the economy.
Deere & Co.'s CEO got a 35 percent pay hike in 2011 as the world's largest maker of agricultural equipment continued to generate strong global sales and sizeable profits, according to documents filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Compensation for the president and CEO of TD Ameritrade stayed near $6 million last year as the online brokerage performed well in a challenging market, according to documents the company filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson said Wednesday he doesn't think his decision not to run for a third term next year will automatically give the seat to Republicans, who already hold the other four spots in Nebraska's congressional delegation.
Several new problems have been found at a Nebraska power plant that suffered flood damage earlier this year, federal regulators said Tuesday, so inspectors will be watching the plant north of Omaha even more closely as repairs from flooding are made.
From tending cattle to driving tractors or ATVs, 15-year-old Taylor Muller and her three younger brothers have always done what they could to help the family's farming business.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett plans to buy his hometown newspaper company, bypassing his misgivings about the industry with a $150 million deal that will end one of the industry's last sizeable employee-ownership plans.
The world needs to focus on the needs of African farmers and not impose on them what works on American farms if a solution to hunger in sub-Sarahan African is to be realized, Howard Buffett said Wednesday at the World Food Prize symposium in Des Moines, Iowa.
As the Missouri River slowly recedes, farmers seeing their fields for the first time since June are encountering sand dunes, strange debris and deep gouges the floodwaters carved into their once-fertile land.
Officials say an idled Nebraska nuclear plant that was entirely surrounded by Missouri River floodwaters earlier this summer is no longer under a flood emergency.
A scorching drought in the southern Plains has caused hay prices to soar, benefiting farmers to the north but forcing many ranchers to make a difficult choice between paying high prices or selling their cattle.
Union Pacific has resolved part of its long-running dispute with the federal government about fines imposed on the railroad over drug smuggling on trains crossing from Mexico with a $50 million agreement, but the company's lawsuit challenging the fines remains in place.
The Air Force said Wednesday it is discharging a hero of the so-called birther movement who refused to report to duty in Germany for a few days earlier this month because he doubts President Barack Obama's citizenship.
Strong sales of Deere & Co.'s farm equipment pushed up the company's third-quarter net income by 15 percent, and it boosted its 2011 outlook after beating Wall Street expectations for both quarterly revenue and profit, but none of that appeared to satisfy investors Wednesday.
When the Missouri River's floodwaters recede this fall, piles of debris, silt and some smelly surprises will be revealed.
Warren Buffett's company said Friday its second-quarter profit jumped 74 percent because the value of its derivative contracts increased and several of its non-insurance businesses improved.
Continued robust demand for Caterpillar's heavy equipment boosted the company's second-quarter profits by 44 percent, but higher costs and cautious comments about China's economy sent shares sliding Friday.
Union Pacific railroad steamed past challenges presented by severe flooding in the Midwest as well as soaring fuel costs to generate 10 percent more second-quarter profit, the company said Thursday.
A low-level alert issued last month as Missouri River floodwaters approached a southeast Nebraska nuclear power plant has been lifted as water recedes, while a similar alert remains in effect for a second plant along the river that has been shut down since April.
The Omaha Nighthawks are giving Eric Crouch another shot at professional football.
Several hundred thousand acres of rich Midwestern farmland and even some urban areas near the Missouri River are at risk of flooding this summer during months of historically high water that experts fear will overwhelm some levees, especially older ones.
Database business Infogroup announced Wednesday that it is getting out of the survey business and is selling its Opinion Research Corp. unit that handles polling for CNN and others to private equity firm Lake Capital Management.
Shareholders in Wesco Financial, a conglomerate that Warren Buffett and his sidekick Charlie Munger first took control of in 1973, voted Friday to sell the remaining 20 percent of the company's stock to Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
The pictures of a Nebraska nuclear power plant were startling: Floodwaters from the swollen Missouri River had risen nearly to the reactor building, with the potential to climb even higher.
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