1.   New regulations set to go into effect soon by the Indiana Department of Transportation could increase the amount of money farmers pay when they ship crop fertilizer and food.

2.   The royalty farmers pay each spring is good for only one year.

3.   A checkoff is a tax farmers pay on production.

4.   The governor now appoints the members of the four commissions that regulate checkoff dollars farmers pay on wheat, grain sorghum, corn and soybeans.