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16 Sep 2022
By Dan Crummett, Progressive Farmer Contributor Driving north from near the little town of Freedom and the adjacent Cimarron River, red-dirt hills and canyons covered with thirsty cedars strangle what was once Oklahoma's western boundary of native tallgrass prairie. But, as you reach the hilltop, near a sign pointing westward to Jackass Ridge Road,...
14 Sep 2022
"Rejection from the person whose opinion and love you care the most about ... makes the certainties of life feel precarious and unraveled." -- Joshua Coleman, Ph.D. Family estrangement is a topic I've written about several times during the years, and for good reason: It's a common experience in rural families and family businesses. Being cut off fr...
14 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the first week of September 2022 show most fertilizer prices continue to fall. However, the five-week streak of declines in all eight major fertilizers snapped, as one fertilizer price inched higher. No fertilizers were noticeably lower or higher. DTN designates a significant move as anythi...
14 Sep 2022
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- After pitching a climate-smart pilot program last spring that was expected to cost $1 billion, USDA on Wednesday rolled out up to $2.8 billion in grants under the Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities with expectations that more funding will be released before the end of the year. Fully implemented, the 70 projects are expec...
13 Sep 2022
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Soybean gall midge continues to spread in select states. As of Aug. 18, 2022, there are 155 counties documented as infested with gall midge within the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota. So far in 2022, gall midge has infested eight new Iowa counties, five new counties in South Dakota and two new c...