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30 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Applications are open for Practical Farmers of Iowa's Savings Incentive Program, a two-year program that helps beginning farmers create successful farm businesses through mentorship, business support and financial support. Launched in 2010, the program has helped more than 200 beginning farmers on their path to establish a farm busin...
30 Sep 2024
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of Sept. 29. Watch for coverage of these and other topics through the week on our subscription platforms as well as on www.DTNPF.com. Note that all report release times are Central Daylight Time unless otherwise noted. 1. Hurricane recovery: As families ...
27 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- For the second week in a row, multiple retail fertilizer prices have substantial prices declines, according to prices tracked by DTN for the third week of September 2024. Once again, seven of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to last month. Three fertilizers had sizeable price declines. DTN designates a significant mov...
27 Sep 2024
COLUMBIA, Mo., (DTN) -- With fall harvest and grain shipping reaching a peak, agricultural groups are calling on the Biden administration to protect agricultural shippers from a growing number of transportation bottlenecks. The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) on Friday led a letter to President Joe Biden signed by 195 agricultural groups...
27 Sep 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by half a percentage point in September will lower the cost of borrowing money this fall, a small but welcome relief to farmers plagued by inflationary input costs and rock-bottom commodity prices. "If you're borrowing $2 million at 8% interest, that's $160,000, assumi...