Bush boosts early crop subsidies and forms rural task force
President Bush announced $850 million in advance deficiency payments to farmers as part of early crop subsidies and unveiled a Rural Development Working Group chaired by Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter. He pressed for trade concessions from Europe, warned against unilateral agricultural disarmament, and indicated extra aid may follow if drought persists.
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Farm Credit Services names Ankney loan processing aide
Mary Ann Ankney of Dixon has been named personal accounts specialist for Farm Credit Services of Northeast and Northwest Illinois. She will assist with farm operating loan processing, initially based in Amboy and Cambridge, after previously working with Ogle County ASCS in Oregon. Ankney, a 1988 Iowa State University graduate, joined Farm Credit Services under the Federal Land Bank and PCA lending system.
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Retail farm machinery sales rise in February in Chicago report
February farm equipment sales increased versus last year led by higher two wheel-drive tractor sales and near doubling for four wheel-drive tractors. Self-propelled combines fell, balers climbed sharply, forage harvesters dipped, and mower coaches rose. First two months total sales declined 6.4 percent from 1988. The Farm and Industrial Equipment Institute, founded in 1893, represents over 175 manufacturers and accounts for more than 90 percent of North American field and farmstead equipment sales.
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