Entries for April 2021
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30 Apr 2021
USDA Daily Market Rates 04/30 06:25 Effective: April 30, 2021 The following Market Rates are established to aid in the development of the Posted County Prices (PCPs) which are used by county Farm Services Agency (FSA) Offices for loan redemption purposes. Uses of these rates for other purposes may not be appropriate. Questions concerning the grain,...
30 Apr 2021
Death from grain entrapment is a tragedy by horrific suffocation. Tragically, entrapments are preventable -- fewer are accidents, more are the result of an intentional decision to enter grain bins even with evidence of risk. Rarely are there witnesses to the outcome. The film "SILO" does stand witness to those deaths, showing viewers what few see. ...
29 Apr 2021
DTN Closing Livestock Comment 04/29 16:18 Cattle Say So Long to April Contracts Looking to Friday's trade, the cattle contracts hope the corn market will be pressured again and the lean hog contracts know that resistance pressure is still going to be looming. ShayLe Stewart DTN Livestock Analyst GENERAL COMMENTS: With April feeder cattle futures se...
29 Apr 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Agriculture interests on the front lines of charting a climate course for farmers and ranchers say there may never be another time like the present to expand conservation and other carbon-sequestration programs. With numerous pieces of federal legislation introduced that could provide economic opportunities for agriculture to...
29 Apr 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- In a speech full of big-spending proposals, President Joe Biden made his case in a joint address to Congress Wednesday evening that the federal government can do more to rebuild infrastructure and pay more for education, social services and health care. But paying for trillions in new spending will require more taxes on corporations ...