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16 Dec 2015
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Congressional leaders early Wednesday released the text of the fiscal 2016 omnibus appropriations bill and a major tax bill. The tax-relief bill, called the Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015, is chock-full of key provisions for farmers, equipment sellers, biofuel produc...
15 Dec 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editorand Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent OMAHA (DTN) -- The Farm Service Agency is receiving more questions and challenges regarding county yields as farmers discover their commodity payments for 2014 aren't what they expected. One of the most damaging issues facing producers in the Agricultural Risk Coverag...
15 Dec 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- One hundred congressmen signed a letter Monday to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, demanding the secretary declare cottonseed as an eligible oilseed for federal farm-program payments. The list of congressmen signing the letter included 80 Republicans and 20 Democrats, mostly from cotton-prod...
15 Dec 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to fall the second week of December 2015, although not to any great extent, according to retailers tracked by DTN. Seven of the eight major fertilizers edged lower compared to a month earlier but only by small, insignificant amounts of 2% or less. DAP ave...
14 Dec 2015
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent BEIJING (DTN) -- China's Ministry of Agriculture plans to reduce the size of its Corn Belt by 9.5 million acres in the next five years to promote crop diversity and protect the environment, it stated in a recent document. That would equate to about a 10% reduction in corn acres compared to 2015-16, when Chinese fa...