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27 Jan 2017
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser In a recent column on goal setting, I suggested three areas of focus for the New Year: improving relationships, increasing family communication and capturing and sharing major life lessons or stories as part of your legacy. The idea is to take something a little more difficult to measure (versus quantifia...
27 Jan 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst One of the challenges of writing daily market comments is the urge to try to make sense out of all the market's ups and downs as if there should be some logical explanation for everything that happens. Two weeks ago, soybeans went up because of flooding concerns in Argentina. Since then, soybeans went down, partly becaus...
27 Jan 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In another day of falling out with a major trading partner, President Donald Trump and his team declared support for a potential 20% tax on all imports as one way to help fund the construction of a wall to separate the U.S. and Mexico. White House spokesman Sean Spicer told the White House press...
26 Jan 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati has put the legal fight on the waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule on hold pending a review by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to an order handed down Wednesday. The U.S. Supreme Court last week granted a request to hear a legal ...
26 Jan 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Plenty of phosphorus (P) fertilizer application is still broadcast, but more farmers are moving toward banding or knifing in their fertilizer needs directly into the soil. The appeal of this process would be improved fertilizer efficiency, but it does also create a need for specialized application equi...