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23 Apr 2019
By Lori CullerDTN HR Columnist When it comes to improving performance and retaining top talent in our competitive landscape, employee engagement needs to be one of your farm's top initiatives. An engaged employee is 21% more productive than a less-engaged employee and a highly engaged employee is 87% less likely to leave the organization. High leve...
23 Apr 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA has until July 18 to address objections to its 2007 decision to reject a petition asking the agency to ban chlorpyrifos, as a result of an order issued on Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. The order came after a hearing before all of the judges of the ...
22 Apr 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- The domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) average spot price from the 40 locations DTN contacted was down 5 cents at $134 per ton for the week ended April 18, versus the prior week. Spot DDG truck prices were lower as demand has slowed, along with added pressure coming from continued weakness i...
22 Apr 2019
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Heath Stolee has embraced the ribbing he gets for the chestnut grove he tends near Radcliffe, Iowa. "We're in corn and soybean country. All the neighbors are giving me a hard time, saying you're kind of nutty," Stolee said. To the 25 acres of Chinese chestnuts planted in astonishingly straight rows, he ...
22 Apr 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst The way trading has gone for corn and soybeans lately, I wouldn't blame producers for avoiding their quote screens, as the news has not been pleasant. Day by day, corn prices have dripped slowly lower, a modern form of water torture for those holding last fall's harvest. DTN's Corn Index of average cash prices clos...