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21 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- When talking about his climate plan, former Vice President Joe Biden almost always turns at some point to agriculture, farmers and his plan that would expand the Conservation Stewardship Program. In his ABC town hall Oct. 15, Biden pointed to using technology to get to net-zero emissions for energy, but then turned his attention to a...
20 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Nothing works up an appetite like working outdoors, and nothing is quite like harvest time to celebrate the food the surrounds us. Deanne Frieders believes in good food and lives by the theory that "cooking is love made visible." When she married into a Waterman, Illinois, farm family, one of her first jobs was to carry that ...
20 Oct 2020
This article was originally posted at 3:03 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 19. It was last updated at 3:42 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 19. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Mostly dry weather across much of the nation's midsection last week helped farmers push harvest past the halfway mark for corn and hit the three-quarters mark for soybeans by the end of the week, accordi...
19 Oct 2020
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Nitrogen fertilizer application restrictions on crop ground went into effect in certain areas of Minnesota on Sept. 1. The Groundwater Protection Rule prohibits farmers from applying most forms of commercial nitrogen fertilizer in the fall and on frozen ground in areas groundwater is deemed vulnerable to contamination. The rul...
19 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The COVID-19 economic shutdown that led to disruptions in the food supply chain may have hit hardest those Americans who already have challenges finding their next meals. In particular, many Americans face poverty, lack of grocery stores and transportation. On Friday, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, more than 150 countrie...