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17 Oct 2024
CHELSEA, Ala. (DTN) -- John Deere is announcing new layoffs amid sharp declines in equipment sales. Poor sales are not unique to Deere, a new equipment sales report shows. Deere detailed its most recent actions in a statement released to television station KWQC in Davenport, Iowa. Here is a portion of that statement: "Due to reduced demand for our ...
16 Oct 2024
By Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor, and Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Correspondent This article was originally posted at 1:21 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 16. It was updated with additional information at 4 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 16. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- The Harris-Walz campaign is making a bigger push to chip away at former President Donald Trump's su...
16 Oct 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Drought conditions persist in southern Nebraska with areas seeing little or no rain during the past 60 days. For cattle producers, these conditions lead to tough decisions on weaning early, culling cows, and properly managing rangeland for future use. Lori Hallowell, who owns HJ Bar Ranch near Palmyra, Nebraska, with her hus...
16 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- A voter referendum on the regulation of carbon pipelines in South Dakota is pitting landowners against a pipeline project considered a key cog in helping ethanol plants lower their carbon emissions. Along with everything else on the ballot Nov. 5, voters in South Dakota will vote on Referred Law 21 -- whether to keep or reject a stat...
16 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. Today, in our second story o...