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20 Oct 2016
By Lori CullerDTN HR Columnist With today's war for talent, attracting and retaining employees is just as important to your business as your capital expenditure budget for the upcoming year. Whether you're looking to retain your current team or looking to attract new employees, the total compensation package you offer --and how you communicate to ...
20 Oct 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A debate of surrogates for the two major presidential candidates on farm and food policy ended up being far more agreeable than the debates of the two candidates they represented. Regulatory issues were a top theme at the forum in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Farm Foundation on Wednesday mornin...
19 Oct 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Syngenta is challenging a federal judge's ruling that creates a major class of farmers who could have been damaged as part of the ongoing lawsuit on Viptera corn. Syngenta filed an appeal last week with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver over a case in which corn farmers are seeking more tha...
19 Oct 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to move lower the second week of October, though the rate of decline slowed from what was seen in previous weeks, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. While all eight of the major fertilizer are lower compared to a month earlier, the string of ni...
19 Oct 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- DTN View From the Cab farmer Jim Hoover of Newport, Pennsylvania is a man of his word. "I told you last week we were moving to Tower City to pick corn and that's what we did," Jim told DTN late Sunday. With corn harvest finished at the home place, the move to rented land a little far...