Farm subsidies in Nebraska
The Farm Service Agency paid 52,766 recipients in Nebraska $1.4 billion in 2025, across 222,911 payments through 93 county offices — 5.8% of what it paid nationally.
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Nebraska in 2025
- $1.4 billion
- Paid out
- $1,403,370,797
- 5.8% of the national total, which was $24.4 billion.
- 52,766
- Recipients
- Name and mailing address as published, counted once however many payments.
- 222,911
- Payments
- One row is one disbursement, not one recipient and not one year.
- 93
- County offices
- The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farming counties.
What the payments were for
| Program | Paid out | Recipients | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Commodity Assistance Program | $621,075,034 | 37,602 | 73,200 |
| Supp Disaster Relief Non-Spec Crops 1 | $434,387,578 | 24,214 | 34,942 |
| Agricultural Risk Coverage Prog - County | $118,960,778 | 20,148 | 55,511 |
| CRP Payment - Annual Rental | $92,830,556 | 12,129 | 26,748 |
| Emergency Livestock Relief PRGM-2023-24 | $70,433,500 | 14,075 | 20,815 |
| Livestock Forage Disaster Program (Cof) | $29,259,727 | 3,967 | 5,294 |
| Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops | $10,762,472 | 785 | 1,599 |
| Livestock Forage Program | $5,004,743 | 931 | 1,141 |
| Supp Disaster Relief Spec Crops 1 | $3,702,010 | 329 | 414 |
| Emerg Assist Livestock Bees Fish (Elap) | $3,355,650 | 299 | 334 |
Every county office
| County | Paid out | Recipients | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gage County | $35,490,150 | 1,486 | 6,831 |
| Phelps County | $31,787,549 | 752 | 2,835 |
| Platte County | $31,086,468 | 1,367 | 5,751 |
| Thayer County | $31,050,411 | 985 | 5,023 |
| Cedar County | $29,435,750 | 1,052 | 4,930 |
| Knox County | $29,184,466 | 1,258 | 5,667 |
| Saunders County | $28,655,668 | 1,483 | 4,691 |
| Custer County | $27,825,649 | 1,077 | 3,961 |
| Cuming County | $27,646,587 | 983 | 2,970 |
| York County | $26,931,164 | 1,035 | 3,539 |
| Holt County | $26,487,003 | 1,367 | 3,940 |
| Lincoln County | $26,411,893 | 1,117 | 3,267 |
| Fillmore County | $25,845,249 | 818 | 3,048 |
| Kearney County | $25,619,214 | 703 | 3,023 |
| Lancaster County | $24,845,593 | 1,565 | 6,466 |
| Pierce County | $24,813,110 | 760 | 3,475 |
| Red Willow County | $24,279,162 | 801 | 2,827 |
| Wayne County | $24,193,127 | 674 | 2,823 |
| Perkins County | $24,052,880 | 740 | 2,859 |
| Saline County | $23,500,895 | 1,270 | 5,360 |
| Dawson County | $23,339,226 | 897 | 3,036 |
| Burt County | $23,281,160 | 701 | 2,393 |
| Buffalo County | $23,191,554 | 1,120 | 4,425 |
| Chase County | $23,128,075 | 476 | 2,423 |
| Seward County | $22,939,667 | 1,270 | 4,661 |
| Jefferson County | $22,577,215 | 920 | 4,238 |
| Furnas County | $22,455,509 | 729 | 3,241 |
| Clay County | $22,433,146 | 754 | 3,150 |
| Butler County | $22,208,568 | 1,003 | 3,168 |
| Boone County | $22,113,029 | 848 | 2,979 |
| Webster County | $20,954,218 | 743 | 3,462 |
| Antelope County | $20,836,882 | 947 | 3,625 |
| Adams County | $19,275,819 | 823 | 2,510 |
| Box Butte County | $19,267,895 | 648 | 3,064 |
| Nuckolls County | $19,091,409 | 536 | 2,663 |
| Cheyenne County | $19,082,767 | 1,094 | 3,709 |
| Hamilton County | $19,051,956 | 761 | 2,122 |
| Thurston County | $18,992,371 | 452 | 1,720 |
| Washington County | $18,528,766 | 677 | 2,915 |
| Madison County | $17,946,599 | 877 | 2,721 |
| Dodge County | $17,779,531 | 969 | 4,000 |
| Colfax County | $17,526,890 | 745 | 3,650 |
| Dixon County | $17,252,610 | 727 | 2,877 |
| Cass County | $16,921,489 | 939 | 3,554 |
| Stanton County | $16,304,841 | 687 | 2,663 |
| Morrill County | $14,573,466 | 619 | 2,620 |
| Merrick County | $14,381,912 | 764 | 2,557 |
| Keith County | $13,703,495 | 534 | 1,659 |
| Kimball County | $13,701,281 | 733 | 3,009 |
| Otoe County | $13,329,974 | 1,183 | 4,551 |
| Hall County | $13,300,393 | 692 | 1,930 |
| Harlan County | $13,256,693 | 529 | 2,032 |
| Richardson County | $13,116,252 | 879 | 2,611 |
| Franklin County | $12,782,570 | 564 | 2,172 |
| Howard County | $12,673,049 | 770 | 2,597 |
| Gosper County | $12,547,395 | 452 | 1,535 |
| Dundy County | $12,504,162 | 379 | 1,465 |
| Valley County | $12,076,296 | 588 | 1,961 |
| Scotts Bluff County | $11,676,097 | 629 | 2,324 |
| Pawnee County | $11,263,014 | 598 | 2,217 |
| Dawes, North Sioux | $11,171,085 | 485 | 1,822 |
| Nance County | $10,781,874 | 469 | 1,721 |
| Dakota County | $9,910,002 | 215 | 1,067 |
| Nemaha County | $9,585,181 | 567 | 1,667 |
| Cherry County | $9,439,225 | 451 | 691 |
| Sheridan County | $9,396,482 | 410 | 1,395 |
| Hayes County | $9,294,361 | 406 | 1,624 |
| Johnson County | $8,359,038 | 732 | 2,695 |
| Frontier County | $7,805,880 | 334 | 1,106 |
| Greeley County | $5,925,924 | 372 | 1,214 |
| Garden County | $5,569,193 | 295 | 1,002 |
| Brown County | $5,550,641 | 333 | 718 |
| Sarpy County | $4,161,373 | 249 | 1,000 |
| Boyd County | $4,043,617 | 340 | 902 |
| Sherman County | $3,829,064 | 279 | 742 |
| Banner County | $3,765,242 | 220 | 567 |
| Rock County | $3,391,252 | 281 | 571 |
| Polk County | $3,273,234 | 218 | 742 |
| South Sioux | $3,250,806 | 134 | 392 |
| Logan County | $2,992,571 | 148 | 396 |
| Douglas County | $2,447,405 | 172 | 608 |
| Keya Paha County | $2,439,953 | 163 | 322 |
| Hitchcock County | $2,368,776 | 150 | 426 |
| Wheeler County | $2,355,996 | 172 | 381 |
| Deuel County | $2,077,048 | 130 | 364 |
| Garfield County | $1,968,646 | 172 | 356 |
| McPherson County | $1,787,083 | 138 | 198 |
| Loup County | $1,731,447 | 151 | 313 |
| Arthur County | $1,327,822 | 87 | 118 |
| Thomas County | $825,229 | 51 | 78 |
| Hooker County | $706,393 | 57 | 73 |
| Grant County | $698,815 | 34 | 46 |
| Blaine County | $630,905 | 62 | 99 |
The largest recipients in Nebraska
| Recipient | Where | Paid | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandahl Farms | Wakefield | $1,585,922 | 41 |
| Thompson Seed Potatoes Ptnr | Alliance | $1,183,971 | 5 |
| Luther Family Farms Gp | Overton | $1,099,792 | 46 |
| Y5 Partners | Yuma | $1,097,291 | 14 |
| Q & H Honey Farm Llc | Elkhorn | $1,089,218 | 5 |
| Stromberger & Sons Partnership | Imperial | $1,085,402 | 54 |
| Otto Farms | Adams | $1,046,110 | 61 |
| Schiff Partnership | Alliance | $996,870 | 15 |
| C J Farms Gen Ptnr | Holdrege | $960,349 | 25 |
| Roeder Land & Cattle Co | Kearney | $921,392 | 15 |
Nebraska elsewhere on the Factbook
- Reported crimeCrime and justice
Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.
- Cities by violent crime rateCrime and justice
What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.
- Prison populationCrime and justice
People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.
- Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice
Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.
- Hate crimeCrime and justice
Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.
- Federal obligationsFederal spending
What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.
- Registered nonprofitsNonprofits
How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.
- Payments to doctorsHealth
What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.
- Immigration courtsImmigration and the border
The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.
- The Nebraska Factbook entryAcross the Factbook
Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.
The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.
Sources
- USDA Farm Service Agency — farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 23, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work
Data retrieved