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28 Mar 2022
We all know the saying: "There is a first time for everything." That fit me on March 20, when I drove down to Pepin, Wisconsin, and saw the Motor Vessel W. Red Harris pushing nine barges to start the 2022 Upper Mississippi shipping season -- and getting stuck in the ice on Lake Pepin. It was quite a sight. Every year in the spring, when the first t...
28 Mar 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the case brought against California's Proposition 12 by the National Pork Producer Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation. The law, which took effect on Jan. 1, essentially bans the sale of pork from hogs that fail to meet the state's new production standards. The ag groups'...
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...