GOP tax cuts could ease burden on family farms
Republicans push estate tax changes to help farms pass generations, with exemptions rising to 700 000 then 750 000 by 1998 and inflation indexing. Analysts warn current rules depress estate value and threaten family farms as aging operators near retirement while debate over broader tax cuts trims federal spending.
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Curt Anderson
Associated Press
Ashington
Midwest
House
GOP
Nebraska
Bill Barrett
R-Neb
American Farm Bureau Federation
Ways and Means Committee
Bill Archer
Texas
Archer
America
Balanc
Congress
House Agriculture Committee
Pat Roberts
R-Kan
Anderson County FFA Work Auction to fund beef show
The Anderson County FFA sponsors an FFA Work Auction next Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the agriculture-education shop of the junior/senior high school. Thirty-six FFA members and one adviser will be auctioned for a day's work including painting, fence work, field prep, barn cleaning, construction, or yard tasks to raise 500 dollars for the Grand Finale Spring Beef Show.
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Anderson County
FFA
Mettenburg herd earns excellent Simmental awards in Montana
In Bozeman Montana three Simmental cows from Al and Roxanne Mettenburg Princeton earned excellent awards from the American Simmental Association ASA awards recognize cows with two outstanding calves and favorable birth weaning and yearling weights Dr Bruce Cunningham notes PPAs compare cows within the breed to their calf weight potential The Mettenburgs have raised Simmentals since 1972 and this marks their fifth and sixth award in the past years.
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ASA
Bruce E. Cunningham
Paul Ohlenbusch
Kansas State University
Michael Langemeier
KSU Extension
Northern Plains
Kansas
North Dakota
USDA
Southern Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
CRP
Ohlenbusch
FSA
Langemeier
Pirate bug seen as ally in grain bins
Washington AP A Department of Agriculture study highlights the larger pirate bug Lycoteoris campestris as a beneficial predator in stored grain facilities. The insect feeds on pests that threaten grain, survives subfreezing conditions, and can be kept in warehouses without harming the grain.
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Pirate Bug
Washington
Agriculture Department
Lycoteoris Campestris
Department
Agricultural Research Magazine
Thomas Phillips
Wisconsin
Phillips
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