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25 Mar 2022
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack late Wednesday announced that the United States and Japan have reached an agreement to increase the beef safeguard trigger level under the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement. The new three-trigger safeguard mechanism will make it less likely that U.S. exports ...
25 Mar 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Seemingly endless displays of farm equipment, technology and agronomy suppliers filled the Commodity Classic trade show floor earlier this month in New Orleans. It was magnificent. But there was even a grander sight: people. Farmers climbed into combine cabs, chatted with drone company officials about how unmanned aircraft can...
25 Mar 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Bates County, Missouri, farmer Jared Wilson reached the end of his rope last fall. His 690 John Deere combine broke down about a quarter of the way through harvest on his 4,000-acre farm south of Kansas City. The breakdown came after his local dealer did work on the machine to make sure it was ready to roll. The mechanic inst...
25 Mar 2022
Rail service has been failing for well over a month. Shippers who are unable to get empty cars to load out commodities or receive shipments of goods or are not receiving timely rail service are at a breaking point. On Thursday, March 24, the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) urged the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to address the "sign...
24 Mar 2022
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Higher prices for corn, soybeans and wheat should outpace the increase in input costs for the 2022 growing season. Robert Fox, director of the Knowledge Exchange Division at CoBank, said that even at current high prices, fertilizer accounts for about 10% to 20% of an average farm's input costs, depending on the crop. "If ...