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9 Oct 2024
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- At a White House event Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other Biden administration officials told close to 100 farm and rural leaders from around the country that the Biden administration's work to help smaller ranchers and farmers is continuing in the last months in office -- and hinted, without mentioning the nam...
9 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Continuing the trend of the past several weeks, average retail prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were lower than last month during the last week of September 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for two fertilizers were down significantly, which DTN designates as 5% or more. Leading fertilizer prices lower...
8 Oct 2024
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Dry conditions continue to hamper pastures in the Midwest and High Plains regions, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service report for the week ending Oct. 7. While eastern states have seen some relief from dry conditions because of the hurricane rains, they have also dealt with destruction from hig...
8 Oct 2024
USDA is set to release its October Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports at 11 a.m. CDT on Friday, Oct. 11. USDA's corn and soybean production estimates have a history of turning more accurate in October, but on the other side of the coin, harvest is well underway, prices are already anticipating new sup...
8 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- A cattle producer and agriculture teacher in Brevard, North Carolina, continues to help farmers and rural residents face new trials as her community starts to recover from Hurricane Helene. For one, she has a newborn calf living in her laundry room. Brevard is about 35 miles south of Asheville and just one of a swath of communities i...