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4 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The crop insurance industry's profits and the premium subsidies for the country's largest farmers are under a microscope following a government watchdog report laying out changes that "could save the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars per year." The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Monday showi...
4 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The outlook for nitrogen fertilizer appears to be positive as we move into 2024. Prices moved lower in 2023 with more supply returning to the market and nutrients became more affordable. With these factors in place, the outlook for nitrogen looks to be stable with demand and supply both continuing to increase, along with somewhat sta...
3 Dec 2023
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The weather outside might have been frightfully dry most of the summer, but the crop, pastures and people endured. When DTN's View From the Cab farmers look back on the 2023 season, the one word that stands out is resiliency. "I sound like a broken record, but I can't believe how well things turned out here given the drought ...
1 Dec 2023
This story is the first of five profiles of the people selected as the DTN/Progressive Farmer's 2024 America's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers program. Today, we introduce Kasey Bamberger and Heath Bryant, Bryant Agricultural Enterprise, of Washington Court House, Ohio. ** Fayette County is in southwest Ohio. As a portion of the early-American Nort...
1 Dec 2023
HURON, S.D. (DTN) -- South Dakota farmers and others are ramping up for the next salvos in the battles over carbon pipelines in the 2024 legislatures and the polls. A landowners' rights panel at the South Dakota Farmers Union annual meeting this week focused on counties that have developed local ordinances creating setbacks for carbon pipelines. So...