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15 Dec 2023
Des KellerProgressive Farmer Editor This story is the fifth and last 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 Rachel Arneson, Arneson Farms, of Halstad, Minnesota. ** Temperatures have nudged past 80 degrees Fahrenheit on an early October afte...
14 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen the assets of a Texas-based cattle marketing company, alleging the company fraudulently sold securities in &t;cattle contracts" as a $191 million Ponzi scheme that would "soon implode." The company, Agridime LLC out of Fort Worth, Texas, is now under a court-ordered receivership unde...
14 Dec 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The states of Iowa and Nebraska asked a federal court on Wednesday to require EPA to "promptly" finalize a rule to allow permanent, year-round E15 sales in eight states, rejecting the agency's proposed plan to finalize the rule by March 28, 2024. On April 28, 2022, governors in eight states requested a change allowed by the C...
14 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Much like the phosphorous outlook, the look ahead for the global potash (K) market looks to be positive in 2024, thanks to lower prices and returning demand from farmers across the world. Better affordability will mean more potash applications in 2024. However, the Russia-Ukraine war affected potash supply in the last couple of years...
13 Dec 2023
This story is the fourth of five profiles on the people selected as the DTN/Progressive Farmer's 2024 America's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers program. Today, we introduce Brad Laack, Lake Effect Farms LLC of Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. ** Brad Laack is building a first-generation farm headquartered outside of Sheboygan Falls in east central Wisco...