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Volume 57 • Issue 18
Saturday, May 4, 2019 The
Global
Race to
5G is On
By Amanda Radke
for Tri-State Livestock News
On April 12, President Don-
ald Trump and the Federal
Communications Commis-
sion (FCC) announced new
initiatives to launch 5G net-
work growth throughout both
urban and rural areas across
“Secure 5G networks will
the United States.
absolutely be a vital link to
America’s prosperity and na-
tional security in the 21st cen-
tury,” said President Trump.
“5G will be as much as 100
times faster than the cur-rent
4G cellular networks. It will
work, learn, communicate and
travel. It will make American
farms more productive, Amer-
ican manufacturers more
competitive, and American
healthcare better and more
Rural Nebraskans might feel like they are doing more than their fair share when it comes to funding education. Currently with
accessible.”
Unsustainable? 6 year
high ag land values across the state, 85 percent of state aid goes to non-agricultural areas and 15 percent is distributed across transform the way our citizens
In the April 12 press confer-
ence, Trump vowed to outcom-
the board to all school districts, according to a UNL study. Photo by Deanna Nelson-Licking
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anniversary:
In Nebraska, ag property taxes support much
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In Nebraska, ag property taxes supp
In Nebraska in 2017, 42,502
In Nebraska in 2017, 42,502
victims still not
data) The twenty year average is farmers paid $686.5 million dol-
victims still not
lars in property taxes. On a per-
United States average (1950-2017
United States average (1950-2017
150 percent, the ten year average lars in property taxes. On a per-
farm basis, that breaks down to
compensated
that breaks down to
compensated
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By Deanna Nelson-Licking
average
By Deanna Nelson-Licking data). The twenty year average is farmers paid $686.5 million dol- Pautre fire
fornia with the average there being
obody likes taxes, is 147 percent, the five year aver-
for Tri-State Livestock News age is 164 percent and the three $16,151 each, second only to Cali- By Carrie Stadheim
fo
but Nebraska farm-
ers and ranchers year average is 188 percent. Prop-
paid in Nebraska accounting for 38 2017 was $4,902, according to data
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SALE CATALOG INSIDE! N have even more to erty taxes are the single largest tax $17,229. The national average in Editor since the U.S. Forest Service
percent of total state and local tax from the 2017 ag Census collected
started a fire that burned
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PAGE 86 dislike than many others collections. The study revealed that sales Editor. John O’Dea lives near McCook, about 11,000 acres - around
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taxes make up 29 percent of total
percent. Sixty percent of property They are feeling the high tax rate,
According to a study by J. David
paying 9 dollars a year per acre of
The ranchers whose private
Aiken, Nebraska agriculture prop- L taxes, and income taxes are 26 Nebraska with his wife and sons. I I I I I I kota. land, fence, federal grazing S ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ®
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erty taxes are among the highest
government—cities, counties, and given to support Mid-Plains Com-
in the United States. Over the last
taxes go to K-12 education fund-
land, trees, and more were
burned in the fire, have not
munity College than he can afford
three years, Nebraska farmers and
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, said Stock Show&Rodeo
ranchers have paid nearly 31 per-
been reimbursed for any of
taxes and 84 percent of sales taxes to give his own son, who is putting
cent of their net farm income as
local school districts. All income
the damages they claim are
himself through Fort Hays State
property taxes (47 percent in 2017).
owed them as a result of the
University in Hays, Kansas. This
Aiken, an agriculture and Water
are used to fund the state govern-
for him was a cheaper option than
But a meeting with a medi-
ment. Currently with high ag land
Law Specialist Department with BLACK HILLS®
fire.
Southeast Community College in
values across the state, 85 per-
ation judge in Rapid City has
been scheduled for mid-June,
cent of state aid goes to non-ag-
“My sons were talking the other
ricultural areas and 15 percent Nebraska.
that when state and federal taxes
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is distributed across the board to
are factored in, this represents an
Nebraska school districts (largely of being a Nebraskan is getting
effective tax rate of more than 50
percent (over 60 percent in 2017.)
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rural) receive little to no state aid.
Nebraska property taxes on agri-
and
cultural land as a percentage of net
farm income are 146 percent of the
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