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4 Nov 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has withdrawn a policy to require the use of radio frequency identification, or RFID, of animals in interstate commerce. But a number of ranchers and a national cattle group have yet to withdraw a lawsuit they filed against APHIS last month challenging...
4 Nov 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Forget the old fable about the turtle beating the rabbit. "Slow and steady" may finish the race this year, but it probably won't win it. Oh, and the turtle is really, really sick of being wet. When DTN reached out to its Agronomy Advisors to check in on harvest progress in the month of ...
1 Nov 2019
By Rod MauszyckiDTN Tax Columnist Cash method of accounting is under attack. In February 2017, the IRS issued an Action and Decision letter in response to losing Burnett Ranches LTD v. U.S. Under the Internal Revenue Code, a farm or ranch is deemed to be a "farming syndicate" if more than 35% of losses are allocated to limited partners or limited e...
1 Nov 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- With 55% of his acres left unplanted in 2019, one might have expected Matt Foes to put up his feet and take a vacation. Instead, the Sheffield, Illinois, farmer rolled up his sleeves and spent a large part of this summer working a year ahead. "I went into the summer expecting that this ...
1 Nov 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (DTN) -- After the House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said the bill "sends a strong message to the Senate. The people that look to our markets fo...