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10 Aug 2023
By Katie Dehlinger, DTN Farm Business Editor, and Jason Jenkins, DTN Crops Editor MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The fourth day of the DTN Digital Yield Tour shows the importance of rain in sharp contrast. Early summer rains in Kansas may have stymied the wheat harvest, but it's paying off in a potentially record corn crop. The story is tougher across ...
10 Aug 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Three Florida men each were sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a series of frozen beef and pork thefts from packing plants across the Midwest in 2022. Yoslany Leyva Del Sol, Ledier Machin Andino and Delvis L. Fuentes were sentenced on July 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Dist...
9 Aug 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The corn crop's revival story continues on the third day of the 2023 DTN Digital Yield Tour. Gro Intelligence's corn yield estimate for Nebraska has rebounded 21% from its lows in late June. There's above-average potential in Iowa despite its variability, while some of Wisconsin's prime farmland has had little reprieve fr...
9 Aug 2023
DES MOINES, Iowa (DTN) -- As USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service looks to add more climate-smart and conservation practices on farms in the coming years, the agency will likely find itself relying more on services provided by agricultural retailers. The increasing role of private agronomists and crop advisers in helping farmers with conse...
9 Aug 2023
With summer flying by, the August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) and accompanying Crop Production reports are almost here, set for release at 11 a.m. CDT Friday, Aug. 11. For corn and soybeans, the August WASDE report is known as the first report that USDA takes a semiserious crack at yield estimates, helped by a survey of o...