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26 Apr 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- A dairy in Colorado has tested positive for the H5N1 virus as federal officials stress the value of pasteurization for protecting consumers from the virus. USDA's Animal and Health Plant Inspection Service added Colorado to its list of states with dairy herd infections -- the first herd with a reported infection in the past week. US...
26 Apr 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- USDA released on Friday the final traceability rule requirements for animal identification in the cattle sector. USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is putting into place tools to better trace disease outbreaks through information and technology and the use of electronic ID tags for certain groups of ca...
26 Apr 2024
Big Brother is watching! Every time you turn around, there is a new IRS form or government reporting obligation. Some of these are meant to prevent crimes; others are aimed at curbing tax abuse. Many questions about reporting obligations have come up during tax season, so I wanted to briefly touch upon some of them. The Corporate Transparency Act (...
25 Apr 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Lots of farmland in Illinois traded hands for more than $20,000 per acre in 2023. Plenty sold for even more than that, but most of that ground had development potential. While there are many price factors at play, on average 40-acre or larger fields of commercial farmland sold for $12,989 per acre in 2023, according to tr...
24 Apr 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Energy-related payments to farmers for oil, natural gas and wind production have continued to be a significant form of farm income and vary widely depending on where farmers operate, according to a new study by USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS). ERS studied data from USDA's Agricultural Resource Management Survey in its ...