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10 Jul 2017
By Lori CullerDTN HR Columnist With harvest right around the corner, most of us are starting to think about who we need to hire to complete all the activities that need to be done this fall. When hiring seasonal labor for your farm or business, it's a challenge to determine how we should classify and pay for the hours worked. I get it. It's much ...
10 Jul 2017
By Bryce AndersonDTN Senior Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- Like items on a shopping list, drought in the Northern Plains is damaging crops and forage, with no immediate end in sight. Grassland -- check. Spring wheat -- check. The driest April-through-June since 2006 in South Dakota -- and the driest April-June period ever in some other portions ...
10 Jul 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Trial dates have been set in seven additional states on class-action lawsuits filed against Syngenta over the release of Viptera corn to China, according to an order issued by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas in Kansas City, Kansas. A Kansas jury on June 26 awarded farme...
7 Jul 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst On a planet where there is such an oppressively large amount of wheat, that over a third of it won't even be used in the current marketing year and will instead remain as leftover inventory in storage, it's insane that Minneapolis wheat futures have rallied 55% over the past two months, right? Right? No, not ...
7 Jul 2017
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist We have heard a lot about applying nitrogen (N) on soybeans over the past few years. It comes with mixed reviews because supplemental N application only provides a yield benefit about half the time. Commodity prices over the past few years have also dimmed the prospect of return on investment. Still, w...