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15 Nov 2024
SAN ANTONIO (DTN) -- The 15th class of America's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers was announced Thursday, Nov. 14, by DTN/Progressive Farmer. The annual award recognizes five farmers and ranchers who best represent the pioneering promises of American agriculture -- farmers and ranchers who are innovative and imaginative and who work to improve their...
14 Nov 2024
MILWAUKEE (DTN) -- Agricultural lenders are less optimistic that their farmer borrowers will remain profitable this year. A decline in profitability overall concerns bankers, though that varies by region and commodities. Lenders to livestock producers are more optimistic than bankers lending to crop producers. Overall, lenders also are concerned pr...
14 Nov 2024
Mid-November weather news postings largely feature rain and snow, along with continued tropical weather formation. But drought is important, too -- and research on the western United States drought of 2020-22 finds higher temperatures caused by increased greenhouse gases turned an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought. The research project a...
14 Nov 2024
Beef producers can now get more than a Big Mac from McDonald's. The fast-food giant announced on Thursday a collaboration with Syngenta and one of its protein suppliers, Lopez Feeds, that will incentivize cattlemen in the U.S. to use Enogen corn in their feed rations. In return, this collaboration will pay producers 4 cents per head per day on feed...
14 Nov 2024
MILWAUKEE (DTN) -- The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation told bankers on Wednesday that farm groups would push for a disaster relief and economic package as a higher priority in the lame-duck session of Congress than passing a farm bill. Zippy Duvall, a Georgia farmer, spoke to the American Bankers Association's annual Agricultural B...