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With grain prices rising to their highest levels in the past 10 years, the advantages for ag producers to gift agricultural commodities to a community foundation fund are greater than ever. Many Nebraska farmers and ranchers have found that they can save significant taxes by contributing commodities to a charity instead of selling the commodities and making a cash contribution.
An attitude of gratitude prompted Frank and Shirley Sibert, former longtime residents of Valentine, in north-central Nebraska, to give a $100,000 gift of appreciated securities to the Red Cloud Community Foundation Fund, an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation and their hometown, in South Central Nebraska.
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