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15 Sep 2024
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- A movie changed how Quint Pottinger approaches farm safety on Affinity Farms. Sure, he was aware of the dangers of the profession. But the opportunity to have on-farm scenes for the moving picture, Silo, filmed on his New Haven, Kentucky, farm made the realities of grain entrapment so real that it forever changed how he and h...
13 Sep 2024
Contrary to the average trade pre-report opinion, USDA raised their U.S. average yield projection for corn in the Sept. 12 NASS Crop Production report. Instead of paring it back, they raised it another 0.5 bushels per acre (bpa) to 183.6 bpa. The bearish market impact was muted by the 55-million-bushel reduction in old-crop carryover, but the look ...
12 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Commerce Department has issued a preliminary order recommending countervailing duties on imports of 2,4-D from China and India, which account for roughly three-quarters of all 2,4-D herbicide sales in the U.S. The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) and the American Soybean Association (ASA) expressed frustration with a rece...
12 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Lower commodity prices in 2024 have forced farmers to sharpen their pencils to be profitable in their crop enterprises. Add in the fact that some fertilizer prices did not drop, and some fertilizers are actually more expensive compared to last year, and profits could be squeezed in the last half of the year. Rabobank recently publish...
12 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- As Derrick Josi, a fourth-generation farmer from Tillamook, Oregon, listened to a presentation at a National Milk Producers Federation Conference in Nashville in 2016, one of the speakers said something that changed his life. Don Schindler, who does social media and digital communications training, told Josi and other farmers why the...