In this issue: The 2015 Purdue Land Values and Cash Rent Survey shows the general direction to be lower. Average farmland values were down 4% to 5% across the state and cash rents were down 1% to 2%. Surprisingly, some regions and land classes had increases, so look closely at Tables 1 and Table 2!
Answer: The protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external threats and aggression, or other threats as directed by the President. The Department of Defense is responsible for homeland defense.
War Operations to Continue - The memo contains guidance on essential personnel to continue DoD operations during a shutdown and the department will continue to prosecute the war in Afghanistan and operations against al-Qaida and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and will continue to make preparations for deployments into those conflicts.