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30 Oct 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA's Farm Service Agency released a series of maps Friday detailing the range of haves and have-nots when it comes to payments under the Agricultural Risk Coverage program. While FSA announced more than $3.9 billion in commodity payments starts to go out this week to roughly 800,000 farmers, FS...
30 Oct 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Noah Hultgren said he couldn't have asked for anything better than the perfect growing season he had on his farm at Raymond, Minnesota. When DTN visited Hultgren's farm back in May, he said he knew he was taking a chance by planting early that month while frost was still a threat. He was banking on th...
30 Oct 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. ethanol and livestock industries are awaiting the next move in a long line of China's attempts to manipulate trade of dried distillers grains. But even if recent rumors are true, many in the industry feel that the reports are merely another attempt by China to control the market, and ther...
29 Oct 2015
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declined Thursday to say that the Obama administration will totally back efforts in Congress to avoid any cuts to crop insurance. On a call to reporters on another issue, Vilsack told DTN, "As far as the budget is concerned, we will obviously continue...
29 Oct 2015
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent KANSAS CITY (DTN) -- High yields across the upper Midwest in 2015 may have saved many producers from falling below breakeven -- especially if they sold on price rallies. However, the doom and gloom predicted for high-cost corn and soybean farmers is likely just postponed one year, speakers at the Ameri...