Nebraska will play Northwestern in Dublin.
Governor Pete Ricketts and business leaders will travel to the UK and Ireland in August to promote Nebraska businesses during a trade mission to coincide with the season opener of the Nebraska soccer team. University of Nebraska in Ireland.
The trade mission will focus on Nebraska’s agriculture, insurance and other major industries, Ricketts announced Monday. It will also allow the group to watch the Huskers play against Northwestern on August 27.
Ricketts, a Republican, led business executives and state administrators from Nebraska on trips to Asia, Europe, Mexico and Canada during his tenure in an effort to help business leaders business to build overseas relationships and attract foreign companies to invest in Nebraska.
He said the UK is a dominant player in the European insurance industry, which is also a major employer in Nebraska, and several Nebraska companies have offices in England. Companies based in Ireland and Britain have created about 6,000 jobs in Nebraska, he said, pointing to British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline’s Lincoln office.
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“There’s a great opportunity for Nebraska companies to go out there and find business opportunities,” Ricketts said at a news conference. “We would like to help open doors for (business) people to enter the UK”
State officials halted several previous trade missions due to the coronavirus pandemic, although Ricketts led a delegation to Germany in November. Ricketts said state officials will follow the coronavirus travel protocols that are in place at the time, but he hopes the trip goes as planned.
The trade mission will take place from August 20 to 28.
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Sen. Curt Friesen, a corn farmer from Henderson, said it’s important for Nebraska to maintain relationships with European countries because the state exports a large amount of beef, corn, ethanol and fuel there. ‘others products.
Nebraska exported more than $1 billion worth of goods to the UK and Ireland between 2010 and 2020, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Ag Service and the US Census Bureau.
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Nebraska consistently leads the nation in beef exports. Cattle ranchers in the state ship more than $1 billion worth of beef overseas each year.
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Combine exports outpaced corn in 2017, with the state sending $431 million worth of combines overseas that year.
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It should come as no surprise that Cornhusker State sells a lot of corn. In 2017, Nebraska exported $430 million worth of corn.
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Along with corn, soybeans are the state’s major crop. In total, Nebraska exported about half a billion dollars worth of soybeans and soybean products in 2017.
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Nebraska’s natural gas exports fluctuate from year to year, but they are consistently among the state’s top exports. In 2017, the state exported $211 million worth of gas.
Livestock is king in Nebraska, but producers like this family farm in Osmond, Nebraska still export more than $350 million worth of pork products each year.
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They may not seem like a product of Nebraska, but the state exports over $100 million worth of syringes every year. A reason? Medical technology company Becton Dickinson has several factories in Nebraska and employs about 2,500 people in the state.
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Nebraska’s top non-agricultural export is nuclear components, which totaled $920 million in 2019.
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Chemicals are among Nebraska’s fastest growing exports. The state sent $372 million overseas in 2019, a 403% increase from 2010.
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