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23 Jul 2020
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The heat index on Ryan Jenkin's Florida farm hit 123 degrees earlier this week."But it's good. Crops are growing," he said, adding that at this time last year a drought had them debating how much more money to put into the crop. There are some dry fields this year, but there have also been spotty rains. "There's still ple...
22 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal court in New Mexico could decide at any time whether to grant a preliminary injunction against parts of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule.Lawyers in the case have completed all briefs on the motion for injunction, in a lawsuit challenging portions of the rule on intermittent tributaries and non-abutting wetlands as overr...
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...