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10 Feb 2017
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent DES MOINES (DTN) -- Farmland buying interest is strong among outside investors but current land values are not yet cheap enough for most investors to lay their money down, said Steve Bruere whose firm, Peoples Company, hosted its 10th Annual Land Investment Expo with over 700 participants from 30 stat...
9 Feb 2017
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst One month into Livestock Market Year 2017 and what's not to like. I'll pause for the janitorial staff to mop the floor of phlegm, spittle and vomit, convulsive reactions such an assessment might force from the months of demonstrators, Federal judges, journalists, green card holders, Elizabeth Warren, Stephen...
9 Feb 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) - USDA sees net farm income continuing to decline in 2017 even though farmers may generate more overall revenue. In a precursor to the USDA Outlook Forum, USDA reported Tuesday that net farm income is projected to fall 8.7% in 2017 to $62.3 billion, the lowest net farm income totals since 2009....
9 Feb 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (DTN) -- After telling the crop insurance industry Monday that he wouldn't be in Congress if crop insurance had existed when he tried to farm, House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said he doesn't think the 2018 farm bill should be as hard as some in t...
8 Feb 2017
By Andy BieblDTN Tax Columnist Our parents left their land to my brother, sister and me. We have a crop-share arrangement with a young farmer and are working to divide the properties. Since we continued operating the farms together, how long do we have to wait to make a like-kind exchange of properties to divide the land among the three of us? ANS...