About Farm Bureau

Farm Bureau's Mission:

Making the future great for Nebraska's agricultural community.

Farm Bureau's Goals:

To Improve net farm income
To improve the quality of rural life
To unite to analyze problems and formulate appropriate solutions

Farm Bureau represents agriculture at the county, state, national and international levels. It works to educate the public about agriculture and its importance to everyone's personal and economic well-being. For more about the American Farm Bureau, click here.

Nebraska Farm Bureau uses a variety of means to accomplish its goals, as shown throughout this website. In addition, Farm Bureau provides its members a variety of training programs, and represents them in nearly 60 organizations and coalitions dealing with a variety of public policy issues.

Farm Bureau also gives financial and in-kind support to 4-H, FFA, the Nebraska Agricultural Youth Institute, the Leadership Education/Action Development (LEAD) program, Junior Achievement, the Charles Marshall Educational Loan Fund, the Schwarz Memorial Agricultural Scholarship and the Agriculture in the Classroom program.

The Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation, founded in 1917, is the state's largest voluntary agricultural organization. It represents more than 50,000 member families in all 93 Nebraska counties and has 86 organized County Farm Bureaus. The farmers and ranchers who belong to Farm Bureau raise various livestock species and grow a variety of crops from sugarbeets to soybeans.