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9 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Less than two years after being awarded $45.6 million in USDA loans and grants, a northern Iowa chicken processing plant has shut down with state departments of agriculture in Iowa and Minnesota now working with farmers to feed or euthanize 1.6 million broiler chickens. As many as 50 poultry farmers across at least three states also ...
9 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. Hybrid seed corn doesn't hap...
9 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The real estate arm of the Mormon Church is growing larger this month after another company announced a deal to sell it 46 farms totaling 41,554 acres for $289 million in an all-cash deal. Denver-based publicly traded real estate investment trust Farmland Partners Inc. is selling the 46 farms across eight states to Utah-based Farmlan...
9 Oct 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- McDonald's alleges Cargill, JBS, Tyson Foods and other companies conspired to fix beef prices by limiting supplies starting in January 2015, in a new lawsuit filed in a federal court in New York. McDonald's' complaint said the companies implemented a conspiracy by "coordinating, manipulating, or agreeing to pay less than comp...
9 Oct 2024
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- At a White House event Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other Biden administration officials told close to 100 farm and rural leaders from around the country that the Biden administration's work to help smaller ranchers and farmers is continuing in the last months in office -- and hinted, without mentioning the nam...