30 Aug 2024
BOONE, Iowa (DTN) -- Health insurance and healthcare availability have always been a challenge in rural areas and now Iowa-based agricultural solutions company, Landus, is helping farmers with health coverage. "We talk to our farmer-members and the number one thing on their minds is health insurance," Molly Toot, senior vice president of administra...
30 Aug 2024
DTN Closing Grain Comments 08/30 13:52 Soybeans, Soymeal, Corn Continue to Advance; Wheat Shakes Off Early Selling to Close Higher Corn and soybeans continued their recovery from the lows, both rising above the 20-day moving averages with November beans breaking above a downtrend line that began in May. October bean oil futures finished slightly do...
30 Aug 2024
DTN Midday Livestock Comments 08/30 11:42 Friday Sends Livestock Complex Higher Heading into Friday's noon hour, all three of the livestock markets are higher and, at this point, it looks like support is strong enough to carry the market higher through the close. ShayLe Stewart DTN Livestock Analyst GENERAL COMMENTS: All in all, it's been a prosper...
30 Aug 2024
DTN Midday Grain Comments 08/30 10:47 Corn Futures Higher at Midday; Soybeans Lower; Wheat Flat-Higher Corn futures are 2 to 3 cents higher at midday Friday; soybean futures are 1 to 2 cents lower; wheat futures are flat to 4 cents higher. David M. Fiala DTN Contributing Analyst MARKET SUMMARY: Corn futures are 2 to 3 cents higher at midday Friday;...
30 Aug 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Nebraska on Thursday became the latest state to implement rules against lab-grown or cell-cultured meat products with Gov. Jim Pillen signing an executive order to restrict state agencies from buying such products. It's a largely symbolic gesture at this point in the country's largest red-meat producing state because there are no lab...