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16 Mar 2021
In December, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), the longest bill ever passed by Congress and one of the most expensive. With all the complexity, many people are left wondering what's in it? I thought I'd pick apart the pieces relevant to agriculture. PPP: CAA clarifies that gross income does not include forgiveness of Payche...
15 Mar 2021
By Logan Garcia, Market Reporter - Fertecon, Agribusiness Intelligence, IHS Markit The following is a breakdown of wholesale prices and trends of the various fertilizers in February and the first two weeks of March 2021. AMMONIA Domestic: February proved to be an extremely bullish month in U.S. ammonia, as an already tight supply scenario driven by...
15 Mar 2021
Des KellerProgressive Farmer Editor Kevin Stoy is the office guy, the business manager and the marketer of the eastern Indiana farm he, his two brothers, Tom and Ken, and their father, Larry, have grown to nearly 18,000 acres from 1,300 nearly 30 years ago. Their business strategy has been for several years to focus on what they do best: grow nonge...
15 Mar 2021
Farm and ranch families are familiar with estrangement -- the alienation or separation caused by serious conflict or ongoing negative relationships. From my conversations across rural America, most people either have personally experienced family cutoff or are well-acquainted with someone who has no contact with members of their immediate family. T...
15 Mar 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA's past 2018 dicamba registration decision was tainted by political interference and ignored important science on the herbicide's risks, according to an internal EPA email DTN has obtained and verified with the agency. "Over the past few years, I am aware that political interference sometimes compromised the integrity of ...