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11 Feb 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. has kept foot-and-mouth disease out of the country since 1929, but the livestock industry, pharmaceutical companies and the federal government would not be ready to handle an outbreak of the disease if it were to hit the national cattle and hog herds. Given the flow of animals in the U.S...
11 Feb 2016
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) -- Three straight years of falling farm incomes are beginning to extract a toll. The outlook for ag credit conditions deteriorated sharply in late 2015, based on a fourth-quarter survey by the Kansas City Federal Reserve. Bankers expected a surge of farm loan demand and loan renewa...
11 Feb 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- In an all-encompassing hearing before the House Agriculture Committee, lawmakers pleaded with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy to withdraw the waters of the United States rule. The rule remains in legal limbo as challenges stopping its implementation play out in federal...
10 Feb 2016
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- CME Group will shorten trading hours for livestock contracts effective Monday, Feb. 29. The move follows escalating criticism that extreme volatility has rendered cattle futures effectively broken for cash market hedgers. Cattlemen have pointed to many factors in that volatility, most prominently th...
10 Feb 2016
By Andy BieblDTN Tax Columnist QUESTION: I have a current landlord that inherited acreage in September 2014, but now is considering selling, possibly by public auction. Recent land auctions have sold at more than $10,000/acre. Are capital gain taxes calculated differently with inheritance? I was hoping to approach the landlord with the benefit of a...