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26 Jul 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Although Indiana farmer Kip Tom left his post in January as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, he is keeping tabs this week as the U.N. holds events while global agricultural leaders gather in Rome. The United Nations is holding a three-day "presummit" in preparation for a shorter U.N. Food S...
26 Jul 2021
The Wheat Quality Council tour will take place starting Tuesday, July 27, when scouts head out across the state, following eight standard routes beginning and ending in Fargo, North Dakota, with overnight stops in Bismarck and Devils Lake. During the 2019 tour, Dave Green, Executive Vice President of Wheat Quality Council noted, "We change car assi...
23 Jul 2021
Editor's Note: This report was originally published at 14:10 p.m. CDT; It was last updated at 14:40 p.m. CDT. OMAHA (DTN) -- Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.3 million head on July 1, 2021. The inventory was 1% below July 1, 2020. The inventory includ...
23 Jul 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- In his first in-person meeting with reporters since the beginning of the pandemic, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall on Thursday praised the Biden administration's openness but said his Republican-leaning group vigorously opposes any change in the use of stepped-up basis for the valuation of farm estates. Th...
23 Jul 2021
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at: AGCO launching a pilot of its Precision Ag Line (PAL) program; John Deere offering customers JDLink connectivity service at no additional charge; Monarch Tractor getting a USDA grant to deploy its fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor at an Oregon farm; and Mathews Company launche...