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48,400
Number of farms |
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934 acres
Average size of a Nebraska farm |
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45,200,000 acres
Land in Nebraska farms |
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92.7%
Land used for farming in the state |
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Over 1 billion pounds
Milk produced by Nebraska’s dairy cows |
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3rd
Nebraska’s rank in the U.S. for all cattle and calves inventory |
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9,550,000 acres
Corn acres in 2017, -3.05% vs. 2016
178 bu/acre
Corn yield in 2016, -29.0 bu/acre vs. 2015 |
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5,700,000 acres
Soybean acres in 2017, +9.62% vs. 2016
61 bu/acre
Soybean yield in 2016, +3.0 bu/acre vs. 2015 |
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1,110,000 acres
Wheat acres in 2017, -19% vs. 2016
54 bu/acre
Wheat yield in 2016, +16.0 bu/acre vs. 2015 |