Wrong Time to Cut Farm Payments & Peanut Popularity is Up

Randall Weiseman February 24, 2011 Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia, Peanuts

There are some in Washington working hard to make sure farm payments are not cut in the middle of the current farm bill as Tyron Spearman talks about that along with providing information about peanut popularity.

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