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4 Feb 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers should see the third and final round of Market Facilitation Program payments in the bank by the end of the week, USDA announced in a news release on Monday. The latest MFP payments come just weeks after the United States and China finalized a phase-one trade deal. "It's been a great start to ...
4 Feb 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Both sides in the Wade v. Bayer glyphosate case have agreed to an indefinite continuance in the trial to allow settlement talks to continue, a spokesperson for Bayer told DTN on Monday, confirming a settlement had not been reached. The St. Louis, Missouri, case in the 22nd Circuit Court was near compl...
4 Feb 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- Democratic Party officials plan to release at least half of all Iowa's presidential caucus results at 4 p.m. CST on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported late Tuesday morning. The final results of the Democratic Party caucus were delayed after problems reporting the numbers out of the roughl...
3 Feb 2020
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst I am not kidding when I say I was just talking to a friend last week and made the comment, "what keeps me up at night is another year like 2008 where we do all this work trying to figure out supply and demand factors, argue about how big the corn crop is and then some unexpected outside event comes along and hits the...
3 Feb 2020
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter ATLANTIC, Iowa (DTN) -- A cow having difficulty calving (dystocia) is a stressful time for everyone involved. Proper management, however, at this time can make an often tough situation much less difficult. This was the message from two presenters at the Southwest Iowa Cow-Calf Short Course held in Atlantic, Iowa, on ...