Deal signed at farm bureau will send peas to Cuba\

DeKALB - In a deal signed Tuesday at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, an agriculture business consulting firm and an international trader agreed to export 15,000 tons of dry field peas to Cuba later this year. RAPCO, an agriculture business consulting firm based in Rochelle, is currently looking for farmers in the state who want to participate in the program by planting crops of dry field peas. "The yields are similar, if not better than, current soybean crops," RAPCO CEO Ron Hagemann said. According to Hagemann, some farmers already have agreed to participate. He said approximately half of them are from the northern half of the state. Hagemann expects to pick up more growers in the southern part of the state in the coming weeks. "We've just