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30 Sep 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers with prevented planting claims on a projected 19.6 million acres will receive a "top-up" payment on their claims from insurance providers starting in mid-October. USDA announced Thursday that all farmers with 2019 prevented planted claims will receive a bonus payment. Prevented planting in...
30 Sep 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The long-awaited 2019 harvest season is slowly getting underway, and it promises to be a long, memorable effort for Midwest farmers. "Corn harvest is going to be a strange animal this year," noted Nebraska farmer Kenny Reinke. "It's going to be really spread out due to planting dates." ...
30 Sep 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Ten days ago, Siouxland Energy Cooperative in Sioux Center, Iowa, announced it was idling its 90-million-gallon ethanol plant. The company cited lost ethanol demand from the most recent round of 31 small-refinery exemptions (SRE) to the Renewable Fuel Standard as the reason, the final straw in what ha...
27 Sep 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- At a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the meat industry Wednesday, a representative of the U.S. Cattlemen's Association said that price discovery for cattle needs to be improved, while other meat interests said the most important goal for Congress should be approval of the U.S....
27 Sep 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Many ethanol companies in the United States have done about all they can do to weather the downturn in the industry, while others have been less fortunate and have idled production. As President Donald Trump's administration continues to consider some kind of biofuels deal, the economics of ethanol pr...