LINCOLN, Neb. —

A long-running state program in Nebraska aims to give new farmers something to lean on.

"Everybody's got something there, some something that's helped them get started," Britt Anderson, a board member of that program, said. "I know how hard it was getting started even years ago. And I know it's a lot more difficult now. So giving that young person some kind of edge."

The Beginning Farmer Tax Credit Program Board meets a few times a year and gathered on Tuesday morning in northwest Lincoln. It doles out up to $2 million in credits to landowners who rent their land to agricultural newcomers.

Breaking into farming has never been easy, said Brad Lubben, who heads up the board. But with a perfect storm of difficulties swirling over the head of the farmstead, he said it's esp

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