Agriculture & Rural Nebraska

We Support: 

● Preserving the livability, economic viability, sustainability, and culture of our rural communities, family farms and ranches, and small businesses. 

● Providing property tax relief to family farms by taxing their real estate solely on its ability to produce income. 

● Restoring Fair Market competition for purchasing seed, feed, fertilizer, and supplies. 

● Restoring Fair Market competition to sell crops and livestock. 

● Safeguarding a strong, sustainable export strategy of Nebraska’s agricultural products. 

● Mandatory country-of-origin labeling. 

● Strong Farm Bill programs. 

● Raising the payment cap on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) enrolled farm ground to reflect current production values. 

● Efforts to ensure that farm subsidies and disaster relief benefit actual Nebraska family farmers and ranchers. 

● The Right to Repair: Producers and their mechanics should have the right to fix the equipment they use to produce agricultural products. 

● Ensuring that farmers have control over the data produced by their equipment and implements. 

● Protecting landowners’ rights to manage their land in a lawful manner. 

● Labeling of all food products produced through artificial genetic modifications. 

● Investments and research for the improved profitability of Nebraska agriculture. 

● Continued investment in innovative research to maintain Nebraska as a leading agricultural state. 

● Livestock and crop diversification. 

● Empowering local markets and regional food hubs to sell fresh local products. 

● Locally accessible healthcare, including timely and reliable ambulance services. 

● Fully funded local rural public schools. 

● Public-private partnerships such as agrivoltaics, etc. and incentives for the economic revival of rural Nebraska, 

● Laws requiring businesses that have received tax relief or subsidies, and then abandon facilities to be responsible for community impacts. 

● The establishment of local co-op or individually owned slaughter/packing/cold storage facilities across the state. 

● Expansion of voluntary programs for sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices. 

● Investing in research and development to support climate-resilient, sustainable, low-carbon, and modern agricultural methods. 

● Increasing organic farming in our state. 

● The development of the hemp industry, including processing capacity for food, fuel, medicine, and fiber/paper. 

● Regenerative agriculture using conservation methods. 

● Statewide high-speed broadband internet. 

● The construction of divided highways including the completion of the expressway systems throughout Nebraska. 

● Programs to help farmers recover from difficult growing seasons or natural disasters. 

● Access to credit at reasonable terms and interest rates. 

● Strengthening international trade. 

● Research, development, and deployment of advanced biofuels. 

● Net-Zero emissions. 

We Oppose: 

● Tariffs that negatively affect the agricultural community in our state. 

● The concentration and monopolistic control of U.S. agricultural production, processing, and marketing by multi-national corporations. 

● The use of grain or livestock as bargaining chips in trade wars, which worsen financial outcomes for farmers and ranchers. 

● Subsidizing large agribusiness. 

● Invasive data collections by farm equipment manufacturers. 

● Foreign and non-family corporate ownership of farm and ranch land. 

● The use of eminent domain by non-governmental entities. 

● Unreasonable barriers on land owners' usage of their property to generate electricity.