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25 Sep 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The Nebraska Farm Bureau rolled out a new association health plan (AHP) for its members on Wednesday that the group anticipates could save Nebraska farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses an average of 25% on health-insurance premiums. Nebraska Farm Bureau is partnering with the non-profit insurer M...
24 Sep 2018
By Joel Reichenberger Progressive Farmer Senior Editor Marsha Daughenbaugh doesn't ride bicycles -- she rides horses. The third-generation rancher in rural Routt County, Colorado, works the meadows just outside the county seat of Steamboat Springs. Decades ago, her grandfather started, and she still runs, the Rocking C Bar cattle ranch here. So, ev...
24 Sep 2018
Editor's Note: This article was originally posted at 2:02 p.m. CDT. It was reposted with additional information at 2:46 p.m. CDT. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.1 million head on Sept. 1, 2018. The inventory was 6% above Sept. 1, 2...
24 Sep 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst A week ago Thursday, I was driving back to Omaha with DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist Bryce Anderson, and we were surveying one corn field after another along I-80. We had just come from three days of speaking engagements at Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, Nebraska, and still had USDA's latest crop estimate fresh on our ...
21 Sep 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Roughly 150 farmers attended a meeting Tuesday night in Ashby, Minnesota, looking for answers about the closed Ashby Farmers Cooperative Elevator and its former manager, who allegedly stole at least $2 million from the elevator before disappearing earlier this month. An audit of the grain coopera...