By james art 
Nebraska Legislative Session 2025
Several bills before Nebraska’s legislation during the 2025 session could have an impact on agricultural operations. Baird Holm LLP provides information on accounts affecting agriculture, environmental and natural resources in their environmental impulse.
Four remarks have been identified for the Agricultural Committee, ranging from livestock problems to bees to cultivated and produced foodstuffs.
The LB145 (IBACH) proposes that the Agriculture Director be required to administer a harmful weed grant program in order to restart the intention of the department regarding budget loans for vegetation management. The bill would be suitable for six million dollars ($ 6,000,000) each year to manage vegetation within banks or the flooded natural flow plane.
The LB246 (Dekay) will define a “cultivated-protein food product” in accordance with the NEBRA Clean Food Act. The bill will then list the cultivated food product as an example of adultery food. Finally, the bill will specify that if the enterprise produces, produces, imports, distributes, encourages, displays, offers for sale, sales, sales or sale of any curved food in the course of the business is to blame for a fraudulent commercial practice.
The LB658 (Andersen) will provide requirements for labeling and advertising foods with produced proteins. The bill will consider that protein food products designed to resemble traditional agricultural food for foodstuffs as the wrong, if not marked with obvious. In the same way, the bill will look at the production of protein falsely advertised without distinguishing identification when sold near animal proteins.
The LB646 (IBach) will amend the Livestock Brand Act to provide release from certain feed. The bill will allow the branding committee under the law to allow the approved feed to be released from the branding requirements.
The LB540 (HOLDCROFT) will change the provisions of the Nebraska Bee Act to set up a NEBRASKA advisory advice for diligence. The bill would correct various definitions of the beekeeping of the law and establish the necessary process of membership and appointment of the Advisory Board. The Advisory Board will provide feedback, identify gaps in research, create executive steps and plans, and work with the legislature to achieve a healthy and sustainable population of Nebraska bees. The bill also calls for the position of full -time teacher at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension of the Service to provide more resources to both hobbyists and commercial beekeepers.
The LB638 (IBach) proposes to change the provisions of the Nitrogen Stimulation Act. The bill will require the Ministry of Natural Resources to apply for grants of twenty -five dollars ($ 25,000,000) from the Nebraska Environment Fund to be paid in five installments to support nitrogen reduction projects.
Ecological problems
The Natural Resources Committee will look at a bill that will unite the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Environment and Energy.
The LB317 (Brandt) proposes to unite the Department of Natural Resources in the Ministry of Environment and Energy, creating the Department of Water, Energy and the Environment. As part of the transition, the bill will refer to the current Director of Environment and Energy as Director of Water, Energy and the Environment and indicate the current director of natural resources as Chief Water Director.
The bill will transfer all employees of the Ministry of Natural Resources to the Department of Water, Energy and Environment. In addition, when an entity denotes the Department of Natural Resources or the Ministry of Environment and Energy in a contract regarding the functions of the Department of Water, Energy and the Environment, such a reference will be applied to the Department of Water, Energy and Environment. All the Ministry of Natural Resources or the Ministry of Environment and Energy, concluded before July 1, 2025, which are linked to the functions of the Ministry of Water, Energy and the Environment, will be transferred to the same.
The Perskins County Channel Project
Nebraska’s budget loan Committee will decide to deal with certain funds relating to the Perskins County Channel draft in two separate bills.
The LB673 (Raybould) proposes to change the provisions related to the project of the Perskins County Channel and to secure a transfer from the Perskins County District Fund. The bill calls for the transfer of five hundred million dollars ($ 500,000) from the project fund at the water sustainability Fund until June 30, 2025.
LB674 (Raybould) Like the LB673 above, it will transfer two hundred fifty million dollars ($ 250,000) from the Perskins County Project Fund in the General Fund and two hundred fifty million dollars ($ 250,000) in the Sustainability Fund Water until June 30, 2025.
Wyoming Farm Bureau AG Impact Accounts
Bret Molin, director of the advocacy of the Wyoming Farm Bureau policy, said there were several issues related to agriculture in Wyoming, which his organization monitors during the 2025 legislative session.
“We are looking for a good solution to ensure that the ownership ownership of homeowners in Wyoming,” he said.
Several bills that deal with this issue may come out as the question requires a nuanced approach.
“There are discounts from some state -owned state -owned organizations,” Molin said. “Some counties can afford cuts and others cannot.”
The famous domain will be a topic for debate in several conditions this session and Wyoming is no exception.
“I understand from the point of view of industries that are not AG that they must be able to make a project, but we do not want our landowners to transfer,” Molin said.
2024 Wild fires, which burned hundreds of thousands of acres of Wyoming land, are the cause of several other legislative acts that Molin said are important to land and ranch owners and have far influence in the state.
“We are working to receive funding for landowners affected by last year’s fires,” he said. “Most of the time the bigger part of the land that burns is public land, but last year, over 70 percent of the burned decares were private land.”
Wyoming’s two -year budget requires more resources to fight fire throughout the country.
“After 2024, these funds are gone,” Molin said. “We want to fill these funds so that our country has money to fight fires.”
The Bill on the Fire Million, which is involved in supporting the protection of utility companies from losing insurance, will be on the table next week, Molin said.
The Wyoming Farm Bureau also supports a bill to create grants for landowners to deal with weeds like Cheat Grass and Medusa Head, which will be excluded and will work next spring to the decares that burned last fall. When we are preparing to deal with this situation a while ago, there will be far benefits outside the individual landowners, Molin said.
“Dealing with these weeds will immediately have a huge public benefit,” he said. “This will have a positive effect on grazing, water, wildlife; Whole systems will improve. What we do will help everyone. “