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17 Dec 2019
By Becky MillsProgressive Farmer Contributor Every year, about 50,000 head of cattle come to Turner County Stockyard, most of them in stock trailers. Owner Allen Wiggins would like to give all of his customers the same message: "The first thing anybody needs to check is the floor of the trailer." The Ashburn, Georgia, cattleman says over two consec...
16 Dec 2019
By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- After three world records, some folks might retire. Not David Hula. With his irrigated corn yield of 616.20 bushels per acre (bpa), the Charles City, Virginia farmer won the National Corn Growers Association's 2019 National Corn Yield Contest, but also set his fourth world record for th...
16 Dec 2019
By Katie Dehlinger DTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- China and the U.S. reached a preliminary agreement on the first phase of a trade deal that includes increased purchases of U.S. agricultural products, although the amount wasn't specified. The deal, which still needs to go through a legal review before it's signed into place, ...
16 Dec 2019
By Dan Miller DTN Progressive Farmer Senior Editor The "chitchat" is sparse as Zoey Brooks Nelson and her father, Ron, work through a line of cows that had left the milking parlor moments before. Wearing an arm-length glove, Ron reports his findings. Wearing a baseball cap stitched with "Brooks Farms, Est. 1855," Zoey scans a smartphone, makes note...
13 Dec 2019
By Todd Hultman DTN Lead Analyst In my profession, confirmation bias is a common psychological hazard to watch out for. Confirmation bias is the tendency to see the world the way we want it to be, rather than how it actually is. As humans, we tend to filter out information we don't want to hear and that leaves us vulnerable to the risk of fooling o...