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Nebraska farm groups resist checkoff dollars for water
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska's top agricultural groups don't want money from crop checkoff fees to be used to help solve the state's water problems, such as those in the Republican River basin.The groups want non-farmers to share the cost. An official with the state Corn Growers' Association told a legislative committee on Friday that members of that group want the money to come from sales and income taxes.
The groups support a bill (LB689) that would block a plan to use part of an existing per-bushel checkoff fee on corn and grain sorghum to raise money for a state water fund.
The bill would nix that part of the checkoff fee in two years.
State officials have been expecting the fee to raise more than $7 million annually for the water fund beginning in 2012.
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