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Farmer cooperatives and the grain and the feed industry announced a joint agreement to overhaul a new tax benefit for co-ops that gives farmers a strong incentive to sell commodities to them rather ...

Since the enactment of the 1985 farm bill, eligibility for federal farm program benefits has been predicated on meeting minimum levels of conservation compliance on land used to produce agricultural ...

Topeka and Shawnee County officials approved an incentive agreement Wednesday for a local business expecting to create six new jobs in the city. Topeka's Joint Economic Development Organization board ...

The proposed Wheatfield Village development near S.W. 29th and Fairlawn Road is a “textbook example” of a project that should not receive economic development incentives because its businesses would ...

URBANA, Ill. – Even after the agricultural reforms of 2002-03, for wheat, rice, and pearl millet farmers in India, grain markets are still pretty sticky. Two University of Illinois economists analyzed ...

The story of the biblical Old Testament’s Joseph, who I consider the first secretary of agriculture, highlights the timeless importance of grain storage during years of plenty to prepare for scarcity.

Even after the agricultural reforms of 2002-03, for wheat, rice, and pearl millet farmers in India, grain markets are still pretty sticky. Economists analyzed infrastructure of interstate trade for ...