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By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Federal funds have been provided across northwest Missouri to help in the mission of getting everyone high speed internet. USDA Rural Development has given 58-million dollars over four different broadband companies to provide high speed internet to rural areas. USDA Rural Development Missouri director Kyle Wilkens says at USDA they try to prevent any overlap with the FCC in providing broadband funds. "We, before there's a problem, try to reach out to both applicants and explain there's overlap, we need to figure out who's going to take what, so one of the applications don't get kicked out for the other," Wilkens tells KFEQ Ag Director Dionne Bertling. Funds provided in this round of broadband funding from USDA were given to Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Livingston, Mercer, and Nodaway counties among others. Wilkens says the state of Missouri is starting to work closely with the Department of Commerce as it uses natio
Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer speaks to Missouri Farm Bureau members in Buchanan County/Photo by Brent Martin By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri Gov. Mike Parson expects to announce this week when he will call the legislature back into special session to consider a tax cut measure and reconsider an agricultural tax credit bill.Parson vetoed a measure to provide a $500 tax rebate to Missourians, stating the legislature needs to consider a permanent income tax cut instead.Parson vetoed a bill creating new ag tax credit programs and extending existing ones, because the extension was for only two years."You can't even implement the programs in two years," Parson says. "So, that's problematic to start off. And this was really a deal done by special interests and lobbyists and people outside the normal arena; by non-farmers."Parson wants the ag tax credit programs extended for six years.Missouri Farm Bureau President Garrett Hawkins says there's a simple reason
Two of the Peterson Farm Brothers speak to a packed crowd at the Farm-City Breakfast in St. Joseph/Photo by Brent Martin By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostIt began as a lark. Then, it caught fire.The Peterson Farm Brothers might just be farm kids from central Kansas, but they have become social media sensations with their farm-based parodies of popular songs drawing millions of views.Greg Peterson, a Kansas State University communications graduate, says these videos might seem light-hearted, but they have a serious mission."Well, it's kind of two-fold," Peterson tells KFEQ Ag Director Dionne Bertling. "Reaching people outside of agriculture and hoping to make a difference there, but also hopefully providing some inspiration for younger kids who want to be farmers some day; anyone who's in agriculture who our videos give them a sense of pride in what they do."Greg and his brother, Nathan, spoke recently to a large crowd at the 18th Annual Farm City Breakfast in
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