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11 Oct 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Hurricane Helene was the fourth natural disaster to hit Florida's Full Circle Dairy in 13 months, but this one had the biggest impact on the operation located in the northern part of the state in Lee. "This time, the good Lord was watching out for us," said Philip Watts. The Watts family are managing partners at the dairy. "...
10 Oct 2024
USDA is set to release its October Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports at 11 a.m. CDT on Friday, Oct. 11. USDA's corn and soybean production estimates have a history of turning more accurate in October, but on the other side of the coin, harvest is well underway, prices are already anticipating new sup...
10 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is collecting claim information from as many as 50 poultry growers who have not been paid under growing contracts with Pure Prairie Poultry. Less than two years after being awarded $45.6 million in USDA loans and grants, a northern Iowa chicken processing plant has shut down with state department...
9 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Less than two years after being awarded $45.6 million in USDA loans and grants, a northern Iowa chicken processing plant has shut down with state departments of agriculture in Iowa and Minnesota now working with farmers to feed or euthanize 1.6 million broiler chickens. As many as 50 poultry farmers across at least three states also ...
9 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. Hybrid seed corn doesn't hap...