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16 Aug 2024
By Katie Dehlinger, DTN Farm Business Editor, and Russ Quinn, DTN Staff Reporter MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- An active moisture pattern recharged Nebraska soil moisture, sending the 2024 corn crop off to a great start with record potential. But that same active pattern drowned parts of the state in June and hammered others with hail in July, leaving...
16 Aug 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The meat industry is pushing back on Vice President Kamala Harris' plan to call for a federal ban on "price gouging" when it comes to groceries, especially meat prices. Harris is expected to lay out her economic agenda in a speech in North Carolina on Friday. Her vice-presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, also is on the ca...
15 Aug 2024
By Katie Dehlinger, DTN Farm Business Editor, and Susan Payne, DTN Young Farmers Editor MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Wisconsin farmers are hoping frost holds off long enough for crops to mature, the result of a wet spring season full of delays and cool summer temperatures slowing crop development. If it does, DTN's Digital Yield Tour anticipates reco...
15 Aug 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Indiana's corn and soybean crops may set back-to-back yield records in 2024, but much depends on the pivotal grain- and pod-filling phase. County corn yield averages could top 200 bushels per acre (bpa) in 24 counties, mostly in west-central Indiana, according to DTN data. In other parts of the state, planting date could ...
15 Aug 2024
By Katie Dehlinger, DTN Farm Business Editor, and Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Minnesota entered the year with a moisture deficit but has spent most of the season battling a surplus. When more than 10 inches of rain fell on saturated soils in early summer, the devastating floods in July drew national headlines. Abu...