Farm bill includes payments to rural counties

Published January 29, 2014 7:25pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The farm bill moving toward approval in Congress includes a one-year extension of a federal program that compensates rural counties for federal lands they can’t tax. About 1,900 local governments — mostly in the West — received a total of $400 million last year under the program, known as Payment in Lieu of Taxes or PILT.

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