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WAPELLA — Every year on the Fourth of July, Brooke Cooper and her family take lawn chairs out to a pasture on their rural property east of Wap…
NORMAL — For Illinois Farm Bureau spokesman Adam Nielsen, the 2018 farm bill is as intriguing as the world’s most popular sport.
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WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House has narrowly passed a sweeping farm bill that would toughen work requirements for food stamp recipients.
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WAPELLA — Scotty May has been farming in the Wapella area for more than three decades, but seems to find something new all of the time. Each y…
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WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders suffered an embarrassing setback Friday when conservatives scuttled an ambitious farm bill, part of a hi…
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WASHINGTON — In an embarrassment for House Republican leaders, conservatives on Friday scuttled a bill that combines stricter work and job tra…
BLOOMINGTON — U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis said Thursday that if everything goes the way he wants in the new farm bill, which is set for a House vot…
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CLINTON — DeWitt County farmer Marvin Finfrock was able to breathe a small sigh of relief this week while planting corn near Wapella.
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