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3 Jan 2022
Identity Preservation (IP) is the process of differentiating commodities, requiring that strict separation -- typically involving containerized shipping -- be maintained at all times. Identity preserved is often used to market commodities like food-grade corn and soybeans. But there are IP contracts for conventional, organic and biotech seeds also....
3 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden will start 2022 highlighting what the White House sees as unfair market practices by the largest meatpackers and detailing plans to diversify the meatpacking industry while increasing enforcement over anti-trust practices. The White House announced Biden will meet virtually with "family and independent farmers and...
31 Dec 2021
Last summer, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's top agriculture economist Nathan Kauffman said something that now seems prescient. While fertilizer prices were higher then, it was mostly because of the spring run-up, not the supply-side issues forcing prices to new heights. "On a number of fronts, it's possible that some of those cost pressu...
31 Dec 2021
Spray season used to fit into a window of time. These days it's a full-time job -- from herbicide passes, to fungicide applications, to dribbling in-season fertilizer, to cover crop interseeding, to late-season desiccant sprays, to fall weed control. The sprayer is increasingly important and likely one of the first tools you take to the field and t...
31 Dec 2021
Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the top 10 ag news stories of the year, as selected by DTN analysts, editors and reporters. Today, we complete the countdown with No. 1: Supply chain woes made for a challenging year for farmers and agribusinesses. ** LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- This year's supply chain challenges spared no segment of the agricul...