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21 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Friday announced it will start paying off up to $4 billion in debt for minority farmers with notices going out to farmers about their payment relief. USDA officials started the process of debt relief for just under 16,000 borrowers by sending them notices that USDA will be making payments on Farm Service Agency direct loans. ...
21 May 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- May's chilly start wasn't welcomed by many this spring. Cool soils slowed emergence, stymied pre-plant herbicides and took a toll on young crop stands. But by golly, cereal crops were happy. "It has been fantastic for winter cereals!" Dan Petker, a farmer from Ontario, Canada, enthused. "There are some phenomenal-looking whe...
21 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Forests can sequester more carbon to help the country meet emission goals, but the increasing risks and costs from wildfires also demand more proactive forest management to thin out fuel for fires as well as the rapid acceleration of planting millions of acres of new trees. Those are some of the conclusions from a USDA report release...
20 May 2021
MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- The Wheat Quality Council's 2021 Hard Winter Wheat Tour concluded Thursday, May 20, with a total weighted average yield estimate of 58.1 bushels per acre (bpa), a likely tour record that far exceeds USDA's national yield projection of 52.1 bpa. The tour yield estimate is the highest in 19 years and almost certainly the best...
20 May 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Kellie Blair and Ryan Wieck may farm 900 miles apart, but they are singing the same song: More rain would be a good thing. Blair, who farms in Dayton, Iowa, is afraid to complain too loudly. There's a fine line between too little and too much moisture in these flat, rich soils of central Iowa. The Blair Farm corn and soybean ...