Thanks Aussie Rae, I thought I might have to wait 5 days, till it expired.

I'd prefer to try and get it done through working for friends even.

Also the quests are random. You might want to read the chapter in the Game Guide that tells about them. Here is a link to that chapter:
http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=489690

2 of 3 of last quests received again require purchase of facilities with real money. not gonna happen!!

I don't do some of my quests because they require farmcash facilities. It just means I won't make 3 or more million extra coins that day. It isn't really a big deal. The worse thing is having that quest that I will never do sitting there. I wish they would let us delete it. Not asking that we can get a new one till our 20 hours is up, just that we could delete unwanted quests especially if we haven't even clicked the lifeline, like the one I have now requires a farmcash service facility to finish so I am 100% sure that I will not be competing this one. Today I did a quest that required me to buy 2 coin facilities that I never purchased cause I wasn't impressed with them. So I bought them both for around 5 million I believe, but I made 11 million on the quest. Now, that is a good days quest! I have had one or more where I didn't cut even by buying the facility and I tend to put the facility into storage after using it for the quest, but it is still a total win in my book. I love the quests. I am disappointed when I can't do a quest, but it certainly wouldn't keep me from starting a new one as soon as I am able to.

Thanks to the fact the the developers don't seem to listen to certain complaints, I have the ongoing issue of quests that I can't or won't do because they require me to spend money I don't have for a facility. I again have to work around several quests, that will be open numerous days, just to complete the one I can. Hello???? Anybody out there???? Give us a way to close a quest we choose not to do!!!!!

Quest Farm Cash
 

We have been promised for months now that we will receive a free farm cash on our quests once in a while..Is this ever going to happen?

There was never a "promise" of free farm cash on the quests. The exact statement made was:
" In the future the Mayor might occasionally award you 1 FarmCash and/or ingredients based on your performance in previous Quests"
No "promise" and no "coming soon"

there WAS a coming soon..is it gone now? I will have to go look

coming soon: the mayor might occasionally award you with 1 Farm Cash and/or ingredients based on your performance in previous quests is still there