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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
transform the way our citizens
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.”
In the April 12 press confer-
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 work, learn, communicate and
ence, Trump vowed to outcom-
the board to all school districts, according to a UNL study. Photo by Deanna Nelson-Licking
- See 5G networks on Page A12 -
U
Pautre fire
In Nebraska, ag property taxes support much anniversary:
Pautre fire
In Nebraska in 2017, 42,502
In Nebraska in 2017, 42,502
United States average (1950-2017 supp
data). The twenty year average is farmers paid $686.5 million dol-
victims still not
In Nebraska, ag property taxes
victims still not
United States average (1950-2017
150 percent, the ten year average lars in property taxes. On a per-
lars in property taxes. On a per-
compensated
farm basis, that breaks down to
that breaks down to
By Deanna Nelson-Licking data) The twenty year average is farmers paid $686.5 million dol- compensated
i
average
By Deanna Nelson-Licking
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
Six years have passed
paid in Nebraska accounting for 38 2017 was $4,902, according to data
N
ers and ranchers year average is 188 percent. Prop-
but Nebraska farm-
percent of total state and local tax from the 2017 ag Census collected
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
started a fire that burned
JANUARY 11 - FEBRUARY 2, 2019
PAGE 86 dislike than many others collections. The study revealed that sales Editor. by Chris Clayton, DTN ag Policy about 11,000 acres - around
half of which was private land
John O’Dea lives near McCook,
the agricultural Economics Uni- BBBBLLLLAAAACCCCKKKKBBBBLLLLAAAACCCCKKKKBBBBLLLLAAAACCCCKKKK HHHHIIIILLLLLLLLSSSSHHHIIIILLLLLLLLSSSSSSSS ®
taxes, and income taxes are 26 Nebraska with his wife and sons.
- in Perkins County, South Da-
around the country.
According to a study by J. David
taxes make up 29 percent of total
percent. Sixty percent of property They are feeling the high tax rate,
kota.
Aiken, Nebraska agriculture prop-
The ranchers whose private
erty taxes are among the highest
paying 9 dollars a year per acre of
land, fence, federal grazing
taxes go to K-12 education fund-
ing. All property taxes fund local grass. More of his tax dollars are
in the United States. Over the last
land, trees, and more were
government—cities, counties, and given to support Mid-Plains Com-
burned in the fire, have not
three years, Nebraska farmers and
been reimbursed for any of
ranchers have paid nearly 31 per-
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, said Stock Show&Rodeo
munity College than he can afford
local school districts. All income
the damages they claim are
taxes and 84 percent of sales taxes to give his own son, who is putting
cent of their net farm income as
himself through Fort Hays State
property taxes (47 percent in 2017).
owed them as a result of the
Aiken, an agriculture and Water
are used to fund the state govern-
University in Hays, Kansas. This
But a meeting with a medi-
fire.
Law Specialist Department with BLACK HILLS®®®®®®®
ment. Currently with high ag land
for him was a cheaper option than
Southeast Community College in
ation judge in Rapid City has
values across the state, 85 per-
cent of state aid goes to non-ag-
been scheduled for mid-June,
that when state and federal taxes
ricultural areas and 15 percent Nebraska.
“My sons were talking the other
is distributed across the board to
- See Pautre fire on Page A9 -
are factored in, this represents an
all school districts. Two-thirds of day and they agreed “The expense
Nebraska school districts (largely of being a Nebraskan is getting
effective tax rate of more than 50
percent (over 60 percent in 2017.)
and
rural) receive little to no state aid.
Nebraska property taxes on agri-
cultural land as a percentage of net
farm income are 146 percent of the
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