Insurance firm, big farms benefit from buyout plan

Monday, March 4, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The John Hancock insurance company and big farming operations from Georgia to Texas stand to make millions of dollars from a plan in Congress to buy out their special licenses the government has used for decades to inflate the price of peanuts.

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