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15 Nov 2024
Editor's Note: U.S. wheat farmers entered the National Wheat Yield Contest in record numbers in 2024. DTN is featuring details about the fields and farmers and their winning entries in several profiles. Today, we present the Bin Buster winner in the irrigated spring wheat category. ** DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Jess Blatchford entered the 2023 National...
15 Nov 2024
MILWAUKEE (DTN) -- The incoming Trump administration's tax policies will have a significant influence on how interest rates move over the next few years. Trump may also disrupt the Federal Reserve by attempting to aggressively influence the Fed's decisions. Yung-Yu Ma, chief investment officer with BMO wealth management, spoke Thursday about the ou...
15 Nov 2024
SAN ANTONIO (DTN) -- The 15th class of America's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers was announced Thursday, Nov. 14, by DTN/Progressive Farmer. The annual award recognizes five farmers and ranchers who best represent the pioneering promises of American agriculture -- farmers and ranchers who are innovative and imaginative and who work to improve their...
14 Nov 2024
MILWAUKEE (DTN) -- Agricultural lenders are less optimistic that their farmer borrowers will remain profitable this year. A decline in profitability overall concerns bankers, though that varies by region and commodities. Lenders to livestock producers are more optimistic than bankers lending to crop producers. Overall, lenders also are concerned pr...
14 Nov 2024
Mid-November weather news postings largely feature rain and snow, along with continued tropical weather formation. But drought is important, too -- and research on the western United States drought of 2020-22 finds higher temperatures caused by increased greenhouse gases turned an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought. The research project a...