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17 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The American Farm Bureau Federation is warning farmers and other rural businesses about the approaching Jan. 1, 2025, deadline to provide business ownership information to the U.S. Treasury Department. AFBF estimates more than 230,000 farmers are affected by the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) provisions of the Corporate Trans...
17 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Total acreage enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is now the highest level in a decade as the program evolves and focuses more on grazing acres than at any time in its history. Checks for CRP should have been issued over the first two weeks of October at roughly $1.8 billion total in payments. CRP acreage under the Bid...
17 Oct 2024
CHELSEA, Ala. (DTN) -- John Deere is announcing new layoffs amid sharp declines in equipment sales. Poor sales are not unique to Deere, a new equipment sales report shows. Deere detailed its most recent actions in a statement released to television station KWQC in Davenport, Iowa. Here is a portion of that statement: "Due to reduced demand for our ...
16 Oct 2024
By Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor, and Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Correspondent This article was originally posted at 1:21 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 16. It was updated with additional information at 4 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 16. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- The Harris-Walz campaign is making a bigger push to chip away at former President Donald Trump's su...
16 Oct 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Drought conditions persist in southern Nebraska with areas seeing little or no rain during the past 60 days. For cattle producers, these conditions lead to tough decisions on weaning early, culling cows, and properly managing rangeland for future use. Lori Hallowell, who owns HJ Bar Ranch near Palmyra, Nebraska, with her hus...