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18 Jun 2020
STORM LAKE, Iowa (DTN) -- The coronavirus is still spreading in parts of rural America and more cases are showing up as testing increases.Communities with spikes in COVID-19 cases say they are left working out responses themselves as stay-at-home orders are cancelled and business restrictions are largely going away as well. It's mostly up to busine...
18 Jun 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Every day is Father's Day for Ryan Jenkins and Reid Thompson.Both men have fathers as partners in their farming businesses. Both are raising children surrounded by the rural experience.As Father's Day approaches, DTN asked Jenkins and Thompson to reflect on "dad stuff" and current crop conditions as part of DTN's ongoing View...
17 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal judge Friday ruled North Carolina's so-called "ag-gag" law is unconstitutional, in yet another loss for laws across the country designed to prevent animal-rights groups from conducting undercover investigations of livestock operations.A number of animal-rights groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, o...
17 Jun 2020
These are strange times. Back in January, many of our agribusiness subindustries were poised to have a good year. We reached a trade agreement with China. Milk and cattle prices were strong. There was optimism that agribusiness was slowly climbing out of its long recession.Fast-forward four months. Commodity prices are depressed. Ethanol plants are...
17 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Corn and soybean farmers should be alert for rust diseases this year as southern corn rust and soybean rust made historically early arrivals in the Southeast and Gulf states this summer.Aided by an extremely mild winter and recent tropical storm systems, the two rust diseases are set to thrive in the southern states and perh...