Max Armstrong reports on news from an Iowa State University tax lawyer advising that proper management of recent special payments to agriculture as well as those mandated by the farm bill will be important. Max details the payments farmers have received in the past two years, which is among the highest paid to agriculture in recent years. Max shares strategies from the tax lawyer.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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