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25 Aug 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Reid Thompson's eyes are on the skies. The Colfax, Illinois, farmer has a heck of a soybean crop in the field that will likely need another splash of precipitation to fulfill its promise.Ryan Jenkins has a more wary eye on the weather. The Jay, Florida, cotton, corn and peanut farmer wants to miss the winds and water that oft...
24 Aug 2020
Many family farms and ranches have been operating for generations, their presence a seemingly permanent marker on the geographic and relational landscape of the community. They take pride in decades or even centuries of history and the land passed from grandparents and parents to siblings and cousins.The family agricultural business, in the context...
24 Aug 2020
FRIEND, Neb. (DTN) -- Like a lot of children growing up in a small Nebraska town, Zemua Baptista remembers playing with tractors in the living room as a boy -- "carpet farming," as he describes it."My mom would always get mad at me over it," he said. "I just always knew I wanted to be a farmer. It's always been what I grew up around and spent all m...
24 Aug 2020
By now you've heard the bearish mantra of grain market factors for 2020 repeated so often you can recite them in your sleep. Big crop surpluses, coronavirus, trade disputes, tough export competition, good weather -- the list goes on.In the U.S., 2020 followed the worst planting conditions on record and difficult harvest conditions for many as well....
21 Aug 2020
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Michelle McMurry-Heath, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), emerged this week as a new voice in national agricultural scientific leadership.In a presentation during the Leaders of American Agriculture Virtual Symposium, an event linked to the Democratic National Convention, McMurry-Heath said: "...