New Pillen-championed law gets tough on China, may cost Nebraska companies

Valmont represents a home-grown Nebraska success story, the 80-year-old company that pioneered the center pivot that helps corn grow in the Cornhusker State.

The Fortune 1000 company still operates facilities in its Valley birthplace as well as in Columbus, West Point, Grand Island and McCook. It oversees global operations spanning five continents from a gleaming $50 million headquarters in west Omaha.

But under a new law Gov. Jim Pillen pushed to passage last year, that stalwart Nebraska company might be labeled something else: a "foreign adversarial company" - a status that would make it ine...