This publication is still highly influential in the making of agricultural policies and procedures in Nebraska and surrounding Great Plains states.

Founded in 1859 by Robert Wilkinson Furnas the journal was published eight years before the territory of Nebraska would become a state and wrote for "the experiences of those who have been cultivating our own soil".

[1] With movement ownership and uncertainty of state affairs Nebraska Farmer was discontinued on and off and did not regain the stability of its early years for a few decades.

[2] A paper under the title of Nebraska Farmer would not be published again in the state until in 1905 Samuel Roy McKelvie was offered the position to revive the editorship.

[3] The company continued to expand, launching Colorado Rancher and Farmer in 1947 (now part of the Western Farmer-Stockman) and creating the Husker Harvest Days farm show near Grand Island, Nebraska, in 1978.