Nebraska Farm Bureau leaders are disappointed following Wednesday’s decision by the Revenue Committee to not advance a measure decreasing ag land valuations. Farm Bureau had supported a bill that would have lowered the valuation of agricultural land from 75 percent to 65 percent. President Steve Nelson says property taxes have risen dramatically in the past ten years and are hurting the state’s farmers and ranchers.

Nelson says Senators need to find a more balanced way to determine how to divide.the tax burden.

Nelson says his group will keep working with the Unicameral to try and find an ag land valuation solution.