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22 Jul 2020
Dan Crummett, Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor By the time Terry and Deborah Chandler bought their 200-acre Georgia farm in 1987, it was largely a spent, unproductive, brush-covered testimony to mismanagement. The Soil Conservation Service technicians of the day had been using the land as a bad example in teaching clinics."When we took over, ...
22 Jul 2020
There's been a lot of talk in the last couple months about the backlog of cattle, the increase in carcass weights and the surplus of supply that the industry is going to have to absorb. But until you can wrap your head around just how much extra product is hitting the retail sector, it's hard to understand the ramifications of this extra supply.Fee...
21 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Hog producers currently are holding on to about 1.1 million animals that should have been slaughtered already. The number could grow to about 1.6 million by the end of August and up to 2.5 million by the end of the year.Those numbers should hold, assuming hog-processing plants can keep operations churning at 95% capacity for the rest...
21 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- In what would be one of the biggest funding packages ever for national parks, forests and other federal lands, Congress is expected to pass legislation this week to deal with maintenance problems at national parks but also permanently fund a program that could lead to more federal land purchases.The House of Representatives on Wednes...
21 Jul 2020
By Jessica Wesson, DTN Intern FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (DTN) -- Joshua and Dana Stewart and their two children, Jewel and Henry, raise cattle, market goats and market sheep on their farm near Judsonia, Arkansas. This time of year, the family is usually busy as they prepare for the upcoming livestock show season -- for all three types of livestock. They t...