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29 Oct 2020
Last year at this time, cattlemen were looking at a completely different feeder cattle market. Following the packing plant fire in Holcomb, Kansas, the fall feeder-cattle run was slow to start as cattle prices crumbled. But as we moved into October, the cattle market had ample support. By the middle of October 2019, the live cattle market had a suc...
29 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Cold. Rain. Corn. Beans. Nuts. Pick. Bale. Vote. Sometimes four-letter words sum up a lot in farm country. With one more week of election noise to endure, DTN's View From the Cab farmers find themselves wishing it and the harvest season were, well ... done. Cold temperatures and rain moved into central Illinois this week for ...
28 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Former Vice President Joe Biden's tax plan would translate into higher annual income and payroll taxes for roughly 80,000-plus farmers and significantly affect taxes in farm liquidations or the handing over of farms from one generation to the next. Biden's plan calls for raising taxes on people with $400,000 or more in taxable income...
28 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the agency's long-awaited decision approving three dicamba herbicides for use over-the-top of dicamba-tolerant Xtend crops in 2021 and beyond. On a Tuesday evening press call, Wheeler stated that EPA has granted five-year registrations to two canceled dicamba herbicides -- XtendiMa...
28 Oct 2020
In business, the concept of margin implies some remaining amount of revenue or profit after accounting for expenses and is reflected in terms like "gross margin" or "profit margin." But the word "margin" is also used in another way, according to a book titled "Margin," by Dr. Richard Swenson. He defines it as "the space between our load and our lim...