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17 Mar 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- While most of corporate America is practicing social distancing and working from home, the cattle industry and other food industries are focusing on keeping thousands of people at meatpacking plants continuing to produce food. Cattle prices have fallen, and at least one cattlemen's group has call...
17 Mar 2020
By Jim Ruen Progressive Farmer Contributor Marlin Fay has a simple descriptor for white mold. "It's ugly!" The Grand Meadow, Minnesota, farmer has been fighting the fungi for the past six years. Disease pressure has been significantly worse the past four years, especially on long-manured fields. One tree-lined field has become such a challenge that...
16 Mar 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The metaphoric "black swan" known as the coronavirus has swooped in and quickly put a hold on daily American life and routines and continued pummeling both commodity and stock markets on Thursday. Soybeans hit a new nine-month low in the May contract with a 13 1/4 cent drop to land at $8.59. Novem...
16 Mar 2020
By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- After last year, it was hard to imagine anything but weather being top of mind for farmers this spring. Then along came 2020. With a fast-moving pandemic sending markets plunging and scrambling global supply chains, farmers -- like most Americans -- are facing one of their most uncerta...
16 Mar 2020
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The rush to safer investments amid the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the 10-year Treasury rate down by about a percent over the past few months, providing farmers and ranchers with the opportunity to refinance at very low interest rates. The 10-year Treasury rate is what lender...