Questioning Lowering of Peanut Rate

Randall Weiseman August 25, 2015 Field Crops, Peanuts

We told you last week that USDA had announced they were dropping the price of peanuts left in the loan. But as Tyron Spearman reports, there are some questioning the lowering of those rates.

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