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9 Jun 2016
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser One of the reasons I enjoy working with closely held agriculture businesses is that many families take a holistic view of success. Making money is important, but it isn't always the most important: the chance to work with and influence family members, the sense of satisfaction in growing a crop or raising...
9 Jun 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- This week, Dayton, Iowa, farmer AJ Blair has been cruising his soybean fields on a 4-wheeler, hunting for escaped weed patches to target with his post-emergence herbicide pass. In central Kansas, Justin Knopf and his family have logged miles through their young cornfields looking for cut...
8 Jun 2016
By Jerry Hagstrom DTN Political Correspondentand Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Amid reports that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and ranking member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., are meeting to discuss a compromise on the labeling of genetically modified foods, the Coalition for a Safe Affordable Food Supply...
7 Jun 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- "I haven't seen any planters out here for a while." That observation was made by DTN View From the Cab farmer Chase Brown late Sunday evening. From his farm home near Decatur, Illinois, Chase told DTN that replant chores have been completed on fields where too much rain and cold temp...
7 Jun 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst As a market analyst, I try to keep my feelings out of the way; but I have to admit a certain soft spot for wheat growers. Not that they need or want anyone's sympathy, but let's face it, turning a profit in wheat is no easy task these days. If USDA's national estimates of all wheat production costs are reasonably close, ...