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Archive Home > 2007 > April > 15 > Bill aims to help younger farmers

Bill aims to help younger farmers

Incentives would make it easier to borrow money

By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
April 15, 2007

WASHINGTON - In 1887, two years after Bend applied for its first post office, Jere Breese's ancestors staked out a homestead east of Prineville. They've raised cattle and crops there ever since.

In 1992, Breese decided to stay in the family business, extending the family farm into its fifth....

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