Nebraska’s plentiful water supply helps make the
state a reliable producer of high quality corn:
- On average, 70 percent of the corn produced in Nebraska
is irrigated.
- Approximately 84,000 registered wells and network of
surface canals and rivers supply 8.2 million acres (3.3
million hectares) of irrigated crops and pasture land.
- An estimated 2 billion acre-feet (more than five
times the water of Lake Erie) of easily accessible ground
water from the Ogallala Aquifer lies below 59 percent
of Nebraska’s
land surface.
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