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Nebraska Farm Internet Access Unchanged from 2017
Nebraska Ag Connection - 08/21/2019

According to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, 81 percent of Nebraska farms had access to computers in 2019. This compares to the national average of 73 percent.

Eighty-four percent of farms in Nebraska had internet access, unchanged from the last time this data was collected in 2017.

General computer usage and internet access categories increased from 2017 to 2019 in the United States.

Nationally, 75 percent of farms reported having access to the internet, with 73 percent of farms having access to a desktop or laptop computer. Farms that used a desktop or laptop computer to conduct farm business was up 1 percent from 2017. Over half of the farms in the United States used a smart phone or tablet to conduct farm business, compared to 44 percent in 2017.

In 2019, 26 percent of farms used satellite and 22 percent of farms used a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) to access the internet. Since 2017, Satellite and DSL continue to be the most popular choices that United States farms use to access the internet.


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