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22 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- It only took a spark to get a fire going in Reid Thompson's cornfield this past week. Fortunately, local firefighters were immediately on the scene to extinguish the blaze started by a cigarette thrown by a passing motorist. Extremely dry conditions and wild winds whipped up a scary scenario across much of central Illinois. "...
21 Oct 2020
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (DTN) -- In an often shrewdly efficient business, the math of ranching doesn't always add up at 9,000 feet of elevation. The land is expensive, and the seasons are, as Travis Snowden puts it, "June, July and winter." Until you add in one major X factor. "It's sentiment," said Snowden, 32 years old, who ranches with his wife...
21 Oct 2020
David Hula listens to his ears. The Charles City, Virginia, farmer and corn yield world-record holder said taking time to really know a hybrid pays off in bushels. The Pioneer 1197YHR variety that produced Hula's 2019 National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) National Corn Yield Contest win of 616 bushels per acre wasn't the newest hybrid in the see...
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 ...