Grassley pushes cap on farm subsidies By PHILIP BRASHER REGISTER WASHINGTON BUREAU Washington, D.C. - Sen. Charles Grassley is trying to use a Democratic budget plan to tighten limits on government payments to farms. The Iowa Republican told the Senate on Wednesday that farmers face losing urban support for agricultural subsidies unless Congress reduces the amount of money that individual operations can collect. http://dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070322/BUSINESS01/703220388/1029/archive --------------------- Biofuel proposals get tax breaks 2 northern Iowa counties OK incentives for plants By JERRY PERKINS REGISTER FARM EDITOR Harvest BioFuels, a Texas-based company that wants to build three ethanol plants in northern Iowa, has received more than $11 million in property tax abatements from Kossuth and Hancock counties because, its chief executive officer says, the tax breaks are needed to attract investors. State tax credits of more than $24 million also were approved last month for the proposed ethanol plants in Kossuth and Hancock counties by the Iowa Department of Economic Development board through its High Quality Jobs Creation program. http://dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070322/BUSINESS01/703220383/1029/archive - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp