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20 Aug 2015
By Danny KlinefelterDTN Farm Business Adviser First, DTN's Marcia Taylor and Elizabeth Williams have written a couple of great articles recently on DTN and in The Progressive Farmer. Marcia's was direct advice on how progressive operators plan to skin a profit in 2015 (see http://goo.gl/…). Elizabeth's was insight she gathered from some bright and ...
20 Aug 2015
By Deborah R. HusoProgressive Farmer Contributor There is much about the life of Nick and Celeste Nolan that would seem idyllic. The young couple resides on rolling acreage near Cora, Ohio. They are continuing the dairy started by Nick's grandparents in 1947, while raising young children close to the land on 110 acres of pasture and woods. But the ...
19 Aug 2015
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Picture this: The accounting department of Walmart, the No. 1 company on the Fortune 500 list, has announced a four-day open house for any stock analyst, trader, hedge fund manager, financial journalist, or even any Walmart employee who would like to spend day after day paging through sales data, supplier contr...
19 Aug 2015
By Katie Micik DTN Markets Editor and Pamela Smith DTN Crops/Technology Editor JOSLIN, Illinois (DTN) -- Scouts on the eastern leg of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour saw a more consistent corn crop as they moved northwest from Bloomington towards Iowa on Wednesday. After seven stops in Illinois's Woodford, Marshall, Bureau and Henry counties, the...
19 Aug 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Although the Federal Aviation Administration is making progress at developing rules to allow for the wider use of unmanned aerial systems, or UASs, in a variety of applications including agriculture, it could be sometime in late 2016 or early 2017 before those rules are completed. A new report from th...