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13 Mar 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- JBS USA Food Company and Tyson Foods reached a combined $127.3 million settlement with a group of current and former employees who alleged in a 2022 lawsuit the companies conspired to suppress wages, according to a motion filed in a federal court. In November 2022, a group of employees filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S....
13 Mar 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- A spate of farmland auctions in Iowa resulted in no sales in February. However, another auction settled just $400 per acre shy of a state record. "That's the weird thing about this market," Doug Hensley, president of real estate services at Hertz Farm Management, told DTN. "It's not weak, but people are protecting their l...
13 Mar 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Fertilizer prices continue to move higher according to prices tracked by DTN for the first week of March 2024. For the first time in several months, a fertilizer showed a notable price move. Seven of the eight major fertilizer prices were higher compared to a month earlier, marking the fourth week in a row that prices were mostly hi...
12 Mar 2024
PERRY, Iowa, (DTN) -- Tyson Foods has announced they will close its pork plant in Perry, Iowa, at the end of June, putting 1,276 employees out of work and leaving as many as 6,000 pork producers finding another source to harvest their animals. "After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close our Perry, Iowa por...
12 Mar 2024
"We don't have any hobbies; all we've ever done is work!" Many readers have heard that phrase -- and might have even said it -- on more than one occasion. Those with farms and ranches work a great deal, and they have a hard time separating their work from their identity. When you consider the seasonality, intensity, financial risk and physical labo...