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22 Dec 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is watching out for when USDA will move ahead with its funding plans for new packing-plant capacity. Highlighting some policy successes for NCBA in 2021, Ethan Lane, the group's vice president of government affairs, said in an online press call Tuesday that NCBA "continues to have really robu...
21 Dec 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Prescription tillage continues to grow in popularity among farmers as companies validate its value and equipment options expand. Case IH and John Deere offer automated, prescriptive tillage technology that's designed to increase productivity and revenue while protecting the land. Farmers can precisely tailor seedbeds based on ...
21 Dec 2021
Well, it is finally happening. During La Nina, it is common for the polar vortex, or the winds that circumnavigate the Arctic, to become dislodged and break into pieces. That sends tastes of arctic air southward into the mid-latitudes across the Northern Hemisphere. But we really have not seen that just yet. Usually this happens when strong ridges ...
21 Dec 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The House Agriculture Committee will start 2022 looking at the impact of electric vehicles on agriculture and rural America, Chairman David Scott told DTN in an interview last week. Scott, D-Ga., said the committee will hold a hearing in early January on electric vehicles with auto manufacturers about not only cars, but potential cha...
20 Dec 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- When the skies above the western Kansas plains are feeling generous, there's no better time to be a dryland farmer. And there's no better crop to take advantage of it than sorghum. That's what led Ki Gamble, of Kiowa County, Kansas, to bet big on his family's sorghum fields of Pioneer 85P44 this spring after a surprisingly w...