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16 Jan 2020
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst There are many unanswerable questions and unknowable answers in this business, so I feel a special sort of relief when someone asks me a question that actually has a straightforward answer, like this email I received from a reader last spring: "Each and every year, x amount of corn acres are planted. Without e...
16 Jan 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In one of the biggest political victories of his presidency, President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a phase-one deal with China that is expected to drive significantly higher agricultural exports to that country. The president held a signing event Wednesday with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in ...
15 Jan 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Following the expected signing of a phase one trade deal with China, President Donald Trump plans to speak Sunday at the American Farm Bureau Federation annual convention, the third straight year the president has addressed Farm Bureau's convention. A White House spokesman confirmed to DTN that T...
15 Jan 2020
By Alan BruglerDTN Contributing Analyst One of the few things I remember -- or think I remember -- from college calculus (and that was a few years ago), is that one is not really one. It is somewhere between 1/2 and 1 1/2. This is a useful thing to remember when assessing big government data sets, whether from USDA, the National Weather Service or ...
15 Jan 2020
By Lori CullerDTN HR Columnist Welcome to the biggest hiring month of the year. More jobs get posted in January as companies are working on new budgets, and as candidates start reflecting on their current careers, they may feel it's time to make a change or focus on moving to the next level. That's why January is the high month for job movement. Wh...