Senator Loren Lippincott • District 34

THE COSTS A FARMER FACES

Farming irrigated corn on a thousand- acre farm in Nebraska is a big business with big bills that are getting bigger. Every year the University of Nebraska publishes detailed crop budgets that show typical costs. The numbers below come mainly from their 2025 and 2026 budgets for center-pivot irrigated corn. Yields in those budgets are u…