The 2025 rangeland grasshopper risk map from the USDA indicates there may be increased grasshopper activity in the eastern panhandle and southwestern Nebraska.

Cereal grain crops, including rye, triticale, and oats can be harvested as forage silage and wheat as wheatlage.

On May 11, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins closed the Mexican border to imports of live cattle, horses and bison to protect the U.S. livestock herd from the introduction of New World screwworm, which has been advancing northward since the pest was first detected in southern Mexico in November.