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20 Sep 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Winter wheat and cover crop seed supplies are tight in some regions due to weather-related production issues, seed industry representatives report. Farmers can also expect higher prices for cover crops and winter wheat seed compared to last year, and in some cases, significantly more. Cover crop and winter wheat planting have ...
16 Sep 2022
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Pork producers and other farmers nationally would be faced with meeting multiple conflicting state welfare standards if the U.S. Supreme Court lets California's Proposition 12 stand, National Pork Producers Council leaders said Thursday. The Supreme Court will hear arguments from NPPC and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFB...
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...