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3 Jan 2017
By Bryce AndersonDTN Senior Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the top 10 ag news stories of the year. Today we continue our rundown with a bonus story: the weather. While weather is always a critical story in agriculture, 2016's was even more interesting for what didn't happen. Early in 2016, news rang out (no...
3 Jan 2017
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (DTN) -- Will online farm real estate sites make appraisers as obsolete as travel agents? Not yet, but the online robots are gaining ground. They might even make human appraisers, lenders, renters and potential land buyers work faster and smarter. That's how Bruce Sherrick, director of th...
30 Dec 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent HONOLULU (DTN) -- Former Texas Agriculture Secretary Susan Combs is expected to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, a member of Trump's agriculture advisory committee has told DTN. Combs has been endorsed for the position of Agriculture secretary by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mich...
30 Dec 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the top 10 ag news stories of the year. Today we wrap up our rundown with No. 1: Record harvests of corn and soybeans that fortified bearish arguments in 2016. Here are the impressive numbers, but also why this had such a significant impact on farmers and earned DTN'...
30 Dec 2016
By Andy BieblDTN Tax Columnist QUESTION We have been following your column for years. We have a Limited Liability Company (LLC) that contains all of our farms and one of my stock accounts. We formed it many years ago to protect the land from potential bad decisions our two children might make during their formative years. Our LLC bylaws allow for ...