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12 Oct 2023
LIME SPRINGS, Iowa (DTN) -- Amy Brass and her husband raise cattle, hogs and corn near Rochester, Minnesota. She wants to know how smaller farmers such as herself can compete against larger companies that offer benefits such as health care. "It is incredibly difficult to find people who want to make agriculture their career," Brass told DTN. "We ar...
11 Oct 2023
LIME SPRINGS, Iowa (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday criticized efforts in Congress to cut USDA's budget, adding he expects lawmakers will be forced to pass an extension of the current farm bill or face potential "havoc" for farmers. Vilsack and USDA Rural Development staff held an event in the northeastern rural Iowa town of Li...
11 Oct 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to be evenly split the first week of October 2023 with half lower and half higher compared to last month, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for four of the eight major fertilizers were higher than last month while the other four were lower. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5%...
10 Oct 2023
This article was originally published at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Oct. 10. It was last updated with additional information at 4:04 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Oct. 10. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite being slightly behind average in some Eastern Corn Belt states such as Indiana and Ohio, this year's corn and soybean harvests continued to outpace the five-year ...
10 Oct 2023
Armed with producer surveys and field data from late September and early October, USDA makes a stronger case for its corn and soybean production estimates at 11 a.m. CDT on Thursday, Oct. 12. Data from USDA's Sept. 29 reports will also be included in Thursday's October estimates. CORN In USDA's September WASDE report, an increase of 800,000 acres s...