Headline News
RECENT NEWS
17 May 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The U.S. dairy industry continues pushing for trade officials to start addressing actions by Canada on tariffs and quotas as U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai meets online with trade officials from Mexico and Canada through Tuesday. Trade officials from the three countries are holding the inaugural gathering of the United ...
17 May 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- The Wheat Quality Council's annual Hard Winter Wheat Tour returns this week with a few new twists. Typically, the four-day tour of mostly Kansas wheat fields is held during the first week of May. But it was delayed two weeks this year to allow more time for participants to get COVID-19 vaccinations, with hopes of boosting part...
14 May 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- The Wheat Quality Council's annual Hard Winter Wheat Tour returns next week with a few new twists. Typically, the four-day tour of mostly Kansas wheat fields is held during the first week of May. But it was delayed two weeks this year to allow more time for participants to get COVID-19 vaccinations, with hopes of boosting part...
14 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The board of directors for Kansas City Southern railroad on Thursday switched tracks and chose to accept the purchase offer from Canadian National Railway, concluding that company's bid is superior to that of Canadian Pacific Railway. Canadian National's (CN) bid for Kansas City Southern (KCS) tops $33.6 billion compared to the Canad...
13 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA has not announced exactly when the Farm Service Agency will pay off loans for socially disadvantaged (SDA) farmers, but farmers who are eligible for loan repayment should be receiving a letter in the coming days notifying them their loans are eligible for repayment under the program. Dewayne Goldmon, a senior adviser on racial e...