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Local Farmer Calls On Fellow Farmers To Help 'Feeding America'

The son of well-known billionaire investor Warren Buffett is an Illinois farmer and wants other farmers to join him in a new campaign to fight hunger in rural America.
 
Howard Buffett is working with the Feeding America charitable organization and with agribusiness giant Archer Daniel Midland on what Buffett calls the Invest an Acre initiative. ADM will send postcards to 80-thousand farmers who do business with their grain elevators - asking them to donate the profits from an acre of cropland to the charity - which in turn will use it to support food banks in rural communities. Buffett says the income level at which federal assistance cuts off leaves many families still in need.
 
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    Buffett's famous father has been in the news - with the Obama administration using the Buffett tax to argue that the wealthy should not pay taxes at a lower tax rate than their secretaries. Buffett hopes the Buffett Tax Rule doesn’t hurt him or his campaign.
 
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He says it's not about any one person or his last name - it's about the generosity of the thousands of farmers he hopes will participate.

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