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28 Jun 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- "Accumulators are important because there are just absolutely no kids available to help." That's a little-known fact about hay shared with DTN late Sunday evening by View From the Cab farmer Chase Brown of Decatur, Illinois. The accumulator Chase referred to is a bale accumulator, u...
28 Jun 2016
By Andy BieblDTN Tax Columnist I normally avoid state income tax issues in my column, given that our readership is national. But you might be amused at some of the political discussion in Minnesota over the state's latest income tax hike. And there's a lesson to be learned about a retired farmer's ability to escape a high taxing state. MINNESOTA'S ...
28 Jun 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst As we close in on the half-way mark of 2016 and are just two days shy of USDA's Acreage and Grain Stocks reports, the year has already been full of surprises for corn and soybeans -- some bullish, but the latest ones bearish. Last week was especially bearish for row crops as unexpected rain across the Midwest and the U.K....
28 Jun 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst As we close in on the half-way mark of 2016 and are just two days shy of USDA's Acreage and Grain Stocks reports, the year has already been full of surprises for corn and soybeans -- some bullish, but the latest ones bearish. Last week was especially bearish for row crops as unexpected rain across the Midwest and the U.K....
27 Jun 2016
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst There have been some new developments concerning Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) mandatory weight reporting since my blog titled "SOLAS Deadline Nears; Still No Clear Picture on Implementation" was posted on June 20. https://goo.gl/… On that day, the Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) put out a press r...