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The interdisciplinary Center for Agricultural Profitability is based in the Department of Agricultural Economics. It facilitates faculty research, conducts extension outreach related to agricultural profitability and farm and ranch management and trains undergraduate and graduate students — all to support informed decision-making in agriculture.
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Nebraska On-Farm Research: Agronomic and Economic Decisions
May 21
The Nebraska On-Farm Research Network (NOFRN) is a structured network to allow farmers to test products, practices, and test decision making skills in their own fields, using their own equipment. Working with UNL Extension, farmers conduct trials on a wide array of topics ranging from fungicide, cover crops, nitrogen, biologicals and even the use of drone imagery to determine what approach works best for their operation.
In 2025, NOFRN conducted over 115 projects with reports detailing treatment differences, such as yield and disease pressure, as well as conducting economic thresholds using real application and product cost. NOFRN is farmer driven, and open to testing the many topics of agronomy and how economics affects decision making.
Online Courses from CAP
Financial Record-Keeping and Planning
Know Your Numbers, Know Your Options
Covering goal setting, risk management and financial planning. Learn to set specific farming or ranching goals, understand key financial documents and use them to make sound business decisions.
USDA Farm Service Agency
Borrower Training Course
This course assists beginning farmers and ranchers with understanding financial record-keeping and planning has been approved as a borrower training course by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency.
Self-Paced Course
LLCs for Nebraska Farms and Ranches
The program is designed to help farm and ranch families make informed decisions about whether an LLC is the right structure for their business and avoid costly mistakes.
Nebraska Department of Agriculture
Beginning Farmer Tax Credit Training
This course covers covers financial record-keeping and planning and is approved as a tax credit training course by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture as part of its NextGen program.
