Classic brings re-examination of grower policy

Special Report

March 20, 2013 By Tom Steever Filed Under: Featured

This winter, farmers in Nebraska worked to successfully head off a tax law change that would have likely cost them a pretty penny in the tax they’d pay on purchases of farm inputs. The resolution of that issue was a relief to Geoff Ruth before the Rising City, Nebraska farmer, and president of the Nebraska Soybean Association, had to turn his attention to Commodity Classic and the anticipated discussion of American Soybean Association policy concerning what now is an extension of federal farm policy. “There are still a lot of unknowns to what’s going to happen,” Ruth told Brownfield Ag News in Kissimmee, Florida. “And so we’ve kind of retooled what we have in our document as far as the direction we want to go with our farm bill.”