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4 Aug 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday that dairy producers enrolled in the 2016 Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) will get approximately $11.2 million in financial assistance. The narrowing margin between milk prices and the cost of feed triggered the pay...
4 Aug 2016
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser Management and ownership transitions involve a vast number of business activities. Care must be taken with daily operations, people management, family relationships, finance and accounting and taxes, agronomy, animal health and nutrition, commodity or livestock marketing, government programs and vendor re...
3 Aug 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As has been the case for the last several weeks now, average retail fertilizer prices continued to be just slightly lower the fourth week of July 2016, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. All eight of the major fertilizers dipped in price compared to the previous month, but once again no...
3 Aug 2016
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst There are some perfectly rational reasons to feel bullish about the long-term prospects of the corn and soybean markets (see: DTN Grains Analyst Todd Hultman's column this week, "The Time Bomb Ticks") but on a 100-degree day, I guess I'm just feeling too droopy and pessimistic to believe them. Instead, I'm sit...
2 Aug 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- "The older you get, the tougher it is to watch it." That's the way DTN View From the Cab farmer Jim Hoover described the effects of dry weather on his crops outside Newport, Pennsylvania. But then things got better. "We had rain and it's made me feel better. We got a half-inch on Th...