The data showed that from 2017 to 2022, the state lost nearly 1,900 farms, a decline of 4%, and the remaining farms grew by an average of about 18 acres.
In an effort to be proactive to the state’s growing problem with high nitrate levels in groundwater, State Sen. Teresa Ibach introduced LB 1368, the Nitrogen Incentive Reduction Act, in
The Legislature’s Agriculture Committee took testimony on Sumner state Sen. Teresa Ibach s Legislative Bill 1061, which would raise the 46-year-old program’s per-bushel fee for the first time in 12 years.