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Crop Review

Nebraska, Crop Production & Agriculture

Nebraska produces 5 major field crops across 7.8M acres. The top crop is Corn with 8.1B bu.

5

Major Crops

7.8M acres

Total Acreage

Corn

Top Crop

Crop Production in Nebraska

#CropProductionAcreage
1Corn8.1B bu280K acres
2Soybeans3.3B bu5.2M acres
3Hay889.6M bu2.2M acres
4Sorghum77.4M bu40K acres
5Sunflower44.2M bu30K acres

Frequently Asked Questions

Nebraska grows 5 major field crops: Corn, Soybeans, Hay, Sorghum, Sunflower.

Corn is Nebraska's top crop with 8.1B bu produced across 280K acres.

Sources: USDA NASS

Data from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Production in bushels, bales, or tons depending on crop.

The this entity record above pulls directly from the USDA NASS Quick Stats database. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. crop production, acreage, and farm income distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the the USDA NASS Quick Stats database portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. crops and states with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.

Source: USDA NASS Quick Stats, 2026.