{"id":36396,"date":"2024-04-12T09:53:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36396"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:53:49","slug":"nitrogen-reduction-incentive-program-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36396","title":{"rendered":"Nitrogen reduction incentive program created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators approved creation of a program April 11 to incentivize the reduction of nitrogen use in Nebraska farming practices.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32953\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32953\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32953\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenIbach_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator Teresa Ibach, District 44.  November 30, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1669834059&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;120&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenIbach_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Teresa Ibach&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Teresa Ibach&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenIbach_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32953\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenIbach_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Teresa Ibach\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenIbach_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenIbach_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Teresa Ibach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB1368, sponsored by Sumner Sen. Teresa Ibach, creates a nitrogen reduction incentive program to be administered by the state Department of Natural Resources. The program will provide an annual incentive of $10 per acre to qualified farmers who verify a reduction in commercial fertilizer rates of either 40 pounds per acre or 15% by incorporating a qualifying product into the farm\u2019s nutrient plans.<\/p>\n<p>The program is be funded through a one-time transfer of $1 million from the Water Resources Cash Fund to a newly created Nitrogen Reduction Incentive Cash Fund, and $100,000 in general funds in fiscal year 2024-25 and FY2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The department may apply for additional state, federal or private grant funding.<\/p>\n<p>LB1368 passed on a 42-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators approved creation of a program April 11 to incentivize the reduction of nitrogen use in Nebraska farming practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-36396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-sen-teresa-ibach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36398,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396\/revisions\/36398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}