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20 Oct 2024
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- A motor going out at the top of the grain leg during harvest wasn't exactly a surprise Quint Pottinger anticipated this week. But watching the farm team come together to replace it quickly enough to have operations running within a few hours stirred something in the central Kentucky farmer. "There's something knowing we can p...
19 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The American Farm Bureau Federation is warning farmers and other rural businesses about the approaching Jan. 1, 2025, deadline to provide business ownership information to the U.S. Treasury Department. AFBF estimates more than 230,000 farmers are affected by the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) provisions of the Corporate Trans...
18 Oct 2024
EDITOR'S NOTE: Row-crop farmers make dozens of decisions that affect the crops they grow, but perhaps none is more important than the seed they select. In a special series called Savvy Seed Decisions, DTN/Progressive Farmer examined often unseen facets of the seed industry that affect what farmers put in their planters. Today, in our third story of...
18 Oct 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Deere & Company has violated antitrust and/or consumer protection laws in limiting who can repair John Deere equipment. In March 2022, agriculture groups filed a complaint with the FTC asking the agency to launch an investigation. Those groups, including the National Farme...
17 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The American Farm Bureau Federation is warning farmers and other rural businesses about the approaching Jan. 1, 2025, deadline to provide business ownership information to the U.S. Treasury Department. AFBF estimates more than 230,000 farmers are affected by the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) provisions of the Corporate Trans...