(AP) — When Tim Peterson finished planting his 900 acres of winter wheat last week, the usually market-savvy Kansas farmer unexpectedly found himself struggling to make critical marketing decisions without being able to access to vital agricultural reports, casualties of the federal government shutdown. Farmers and livestock producers use the reports put out by the National Agriculture Statistics Services to make decisions — such as how to price crops, which commodities to grow and when to sell them — as well as track cattle auction prices. When will his $20,000 subsidy check from the government, which usually comes in October, arrive? Since the U.S.
Comment on Shutdown spawns vacuum in farm market information
By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Sun, 10/06/2013 - 11:10pm
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