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17 Oct 2016
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- Call farmer Larry Hoobler part of the Silent Majority. Like the bulk of Great Plains farmers, the 68-year-old grain producer from eastern Kansas can't churn out much profit at today's threadbare commodity prices. By drawing off the lessons of the 1980s farm crisis, however, thi...
14 Oct 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- Despite the European Union reopening its anti-trust probe into the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont, a top executive in the merged company's agricultural division said Thursday the two companies still plan for the merger to close by the end of the year. Jim Collins, a DuPont executive vice ...
14 Oct 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- Despite the European Union reopening its anti-trust probe into the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont, a top executive in the merged company's agricultural division said Thursday the two companies still plan for the merger to close by the end of the year. Jim Collins, a DuPont executive vice ...
14 Oct 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As one new nitrogen fertilizer-producing facility has already begun production and another will soon start producing, more nitrogen is just beginning to enter the market. Fertilizer industry experts say this additional supply should help to lower global nitrogen prices and will have a large effect on ...
14 Oct 2016
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Recent calls to the Kansas Agricultural Mediation Services hotline have taken a more emotional turn this year. There are more tears and more silences as some Plains farmers face wheat planting without operating loan approvals or have lost their land leases, reported Char Hento...