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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...
1 Dec 2023
HURON, S.D. (DTN) -- Driving east along rural highways in South Dakota, flocks of snow geese are seen across the skies and taking a break in cornfields. Over the past month, that waterfowl migration has led to a new spike in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) cases, or bird flu, that has led to larger commercial operations being hit and the d...
30 Nov 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Farm incomes are expected to drop sharply from 2022's record highs, but USDA's November estimate is about $10 billion higher than it was in early September. USDA's Economic Research Service expects net farm income to decline $31.8 billion, or 17%, from 2022 to $151.1 billion. In September, USDA estimated net farm income a...
30 Nov 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Former eastern Washington rancher Cody Easterday has appealed a federal court's Oct. 31, 2023, dismissal of a lawsuit he filed against Tyson Fresh Meats, according to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern Washington on Tuesday. The court dismissed two lawsuits filed by Easterday, who was...