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19 Feb 2020
By Matthew WildeProgressive Farmer Associate Editor Straight-line winds that reached 90 miles per hour ripped off a large portion of the roof of Blake Reynolds' farm shop on June 28, 2018. The 32-year-old Indianola, Iowa, farmer and agribusiness owner was starting to outgrow his then 6-year-old shop. Mother Nature dictated he replace it sooner rath...
19 Feb 2020
By Matthew WildeProgressive Farmer Associate Editor Straight-line winds that reached 90 miles per hour ripped off a large portion of the roof of Blake Reynolds' farm shop on June 28, 2018. The 32-year-old Indianola, Iowa, farmer and agribusiness owner was starting to outgrow his then 6-year-old shop. Mother Nature dictated he replace it sooner rath...
19 Feb 2020
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Tax breaks commonly used by farmers and ranchers also tend to raise red flags with the Internal Revenue Service, increasing the likelihood of an audit. "In general, tax returns with enormous losses or with a big swing in income from one year to the next get a critical eye from ...
18 Feb 2020
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (DTN) -- The Food and Drug Administration's uncertainty over how to regulate hemp, including warning letters to companies for selling products illegally, has diminished the interest of big companies in hemp food products and "frozen" processors' access to capital, the president of Ge...
14 Feb 2020
By Dan Crummett Progressive Farmer Contributor North Dakota State University (NDSU) researchers and Extension agents in 2015 studied stand variability in farmers' fields over a wide range of conditions and locations. Their findings showed, even within a planter width, the most variable row yielded up to 9 bushels per acre less than the least variab...