Farm and ranch production expenditures for Nebraska totaled $32.4 billion in 2025, up 6% from a year earlier, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Livestock expenses, the largest expenditure category, at $11.6 billion, increased 33% from 2024. Feed, the next largest total expense category at $3.4 billion, decreased 10% from 2024. Rent, the third largest expense category, at $2.8 billion, increased 1% from 2024.
Livestock expenses accounted for 36% of Nebraska's total production expenditures. Feed accounted for 11%, rent 9%, and farm services 7%.
The total expenditures per farm or ranch in Nebraska averaged $734,127 in 2025, up 7% from 2024. The livestock expense category was the leading expenditure, at $263,039 per operation, 6.6 times the national average. The average feed expenditure, at $77,098, was 2.0 times the national average. Rent expenditures, at $63,946 per operation, were 3.4 times the national average. Farm services expenditures per operation, at $52,834, were 1.8 times the national average.
These results are based on data from Nebraska farmers and ranchers who participated in USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey. NASS collected the 2025 farm expenditure data from producers between December 2025 and May 2026.
