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31 Aug 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Seed prices, and the companies that set them, have appeared stubbornly indifferent to the decline in commodity crop values over the past few growing seasons. This past indifference -- and farmers' growing frustration over it -- may have changed, with some seed companies now re-examining...
31 Aug 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Winter dumps piles of snow nearly every year along a tree belt near an 0.8-acre tract of land on Arlen Foster's farm in Miner County, South Dakota, in the southeastern part of the state. Spring melt drains onto his field, often making it impossible to farm. Such is life in the Prairie Pothole region...
31 Aug 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor BOONE, Iowa (DTN) -- Stewardship is playing a big role this year at the Farm Progress Show in Iowa as commodity groups and state officials championed conservation practices that translate into water-quality benefits. As the show opened Tuesday, Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey and members of the Iowa Agr...
31 Aug 2016
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Patterns don't usually get a chance to exist in modern commodity markets. If we could really predict that prices would rise after each time they tested their 20-day moving average (or pick any other arbitrary line), then all the clever computers that are reading and testing and learning the markets' behavior e...
30 Aug 2016
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor NASHVILLE (DTN) -- American agriculture lost a generation of young farmers during the 1980s credit crisis. Farm lenders are reaching out to today's beginners with education and special loan terms in an attempt to make sure history doesn't repeat. Louisville-based Farm Credit Mid-America now coaches more ...