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4 Aug 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Business and agricultural groups that have struggled in recent years to get congressional action on immigration reform are counting on 2017 being different once the embers of the 2016 presidential election begin to cool. Presidents from the American Farm Bureau Federation and Western Growers help...
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...