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27 Jun 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- When the going gets tough in the farming world, the answer to the problem is often to work harder. "Somehow we always feel if we just do more, everything will work out," said Ashley Andersen, who farms with her family near Blair, Nebraska. That hasn't necessarily b...
26 Jun 2019
Editor's Note: Each year the Kansas City Board of Trade (now part of the CME Group), the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers provide updates of the Kansas wheat harvest. Today's update is the first report of the 2019 harvest. This is day 1 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought...
26 Jun 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Arguing against regulations classifying livestock as drugs, the National Pork Producers Council wants the Food and Drug Administration to yield regulatory oversight to USDA for gene-edited animals raised for food. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue also told farmers over the weekend he would lob...
26 Jun 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- June is nearing an end, but you wouldn't know it from looking at many corn and soybean fields this year. "It's looking great -- if it was the first of May," Missouri farmer Bob Birdsell said of his corn crop, which he finished planting June 14, unthinkably late in most years. But at lea...
25 Jun 2019
By Loren LindlerDTN News Intern OMAHA (DTN) -- When recent flooding hit Catoosa, Oklahoma, a group of cowboy buddies joined together to help the people of their small town, especially farmers, any way that they could. Since March, heavy rains and flooding have hit a number of states, including: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, ...