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27 Aug 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Smithfield Foods sold a former Premium Standard Farms sow farm in north-central Missouri's Sullivan County at auction earlier this month. The 1,371-acre farm with a mix of farmland, pasture and woodland sold in 10 tracts for $5.64 million, or $4,160 per acre. Missouri cropland values averaged $4,910 per acre and pasture v...
27 Aug 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The state of Iowa will keep in place a one-quarter-cent-per-bushel indemnity fee on grain sales for at least one more year as it tries to rebuild the state's grain indemnity fund, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced on Tuesday. Assuming no new claims are made against the fund, the state said it w...
26 Aug 2024
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (DTN) -- The Biden administration has increased regulatory burdens on agriculture and has failed on international trade, a group of former Trump administration officials highlighted Monday. U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, a Republican and former Nebraska governor, held a "federal issues" forum at the Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island ...
26 Aug 2024
This article was originally published at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, Aug. 26. It was last updated with additional information at 4:42 p.m. CDT on Monday, Aug. 26. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and soybean good-to-excellent condition ratings fell at the national level last week following two weeks in a row of holding steady, USDA NASS reported in its weekly C...
26 Aug 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- One of more than 17 farmers across the country who filed antitrust lawsuits against John Deere has dropped his claims, according to a document filed in federal court. Farmers are challenging the company's alleged monopoly on the repair service market for its equipment with onboard central computers known as engine control uni...