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25 Jan 2017
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (DTN) -- During year-end meetings with farm clients, Minneapolis-based consultant Rod Mauszycki, heard farmers pose a question the veteran tax adviser had never heard before, "What's the penalty for not carrying health insurance next year?" "Many farm families are getting charged $20,000,...
24 Jan 2017
By Becky MillsProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor If you want to make Steve Foglesong's blood pressure spike, just mention bovine respiratory disease. The unpredictability of BRD, not to mention the cost, can be hard to tolerate for the rancher and feeder. "Once in awhile, even with my own cattle, when we've done everything right, and we're sur...
24 Jan 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. farmers will boost soybean acres by 5.2 million acres this spring, while dialing back on corn planting by 3.5 million acres, according to a survey released Tuesday by Informa Economics EIG of prospective crop planting projects. Informa's projection comes a month before USDA's Outlook Forum ...
24 Jan 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Friday in attempt to force the agency to take another look at the conditional use permit approved for the herbicide dicamba as it relates to Monsanto's Xtend soybean and cotton traits, according to a petition for review filed in the U...
23 Jan 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- At least a few agricultural groups were vocal in their criticism Monday after President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise by signing a memorandum to withdraw from the largest trade deal the U.S. had ever negotiated, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In signing the executive order t...