News

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct the Cash Rents and Leases survey starting February 3. The survey provides the basis for estimates of the current year’s cash rents paid for irrigated cropland, non-irrigated cropland, and permanent pasture. Over 241,000 survey recipients across the United States have been selected to complete the survey, which can be completed online at agcounts. usda.gov, by mail or phone. If respondents do not complete the survey by February 20, they may be contacted for an interview.

“It is no secret Nebraska’s farm and ranch families are heavily dependent upon international customers for one third of their annual income. Nebraska’s exports of our top five agricultural products accounted for over $3.5 billion in 2024. Those sales helped support the largest segment of Nebraska’s economy, which hit a rough patch in 2024, falling 17% as compared to 2023. Today’s announced tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, some of Nebraska agriculture’s most important trading partners, only adds to the economic uncertainty which remains the top concern at dinner tables on farms and ranches across our state and nation.”

Elected delegates from the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation (NEFB) took part in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) annual policy session at the 106th AFBF Convention in San Antonio, TX. Just under 400 delegates from state Farm Bureaus gathered together to discuss several hundred federal policy resolutions which once passed, become the playbook of the policy work the organization focuses on for the year.

Nebraska Extension wants to help you take your soybean production to the next level with topics relating to IPM for successful weed management in soybeans, irrigating soybeans, nutrient needs for Nebraska soybean, and much more. The 2025 Nebraska Soybean Production Clinic will be held Tuesday, Feb. 11th at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds in Aurora, Nebraska, starting at 9 a.m. with breakfast refreshments and time to visit with the vendors at the display booths.

High Plains boy’s basketball team beats Exeter Milligan 70-53 with Andrew Adelson scoring 13 points and six rebounds as besides Cole Klingsporn having 17 points and five rebounds. 100th day of school Central City Elementary kindergarten students in Mrs.

The Merrick County Nebraska Republicans gathered at ISI Solar on February 3 for their second meeting of 2025. The meeting included the continuation of the educational video series Constitution Alive!, which explores the structure and principles of the United States Constitution. The episode shown at this meeting, titled Seeds of Liberty, focused on the early ideas and influences that contributed to the formation of the Constitution.