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20 Feb 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent SAN DIEGO (DTN) -- Martin Barbre, the administrator of the Agriculture Department's Risk Management Agency, told the crop insurance industry on Monday that agents can discuss crop insurance for hemp with farmers who are growing it, but must tell them there is no coverage at the present time. "If someone ...
20 Feb 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- It's well known that crops need the proper amounts of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) to produce healthy plants and top yields. Less known, but nearly as important, is sulfur (S). Plants not only need sulfur but also require it in the right form for plant availability. Research has also ...
20 Feb 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Two of three men indicted on 14 counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and making false statements to attain loans and crop insurance for Decatur, Michigan-based Stamp Farms LLC, have been sentenced to prison time. They have been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution as a r...
19 Feb 2019
By Joel ReichenbergerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor There's so much more now than there was -- more people, more traffic, more buildings -- but Glenn Arnold, 84 years old, stands on a ridge above his family's old homestead in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and can only focus on what is gone. "On the corner, that's where our house was," he said on a...
19 Feb 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Tom Schwieterman, who grows 750 acres of corn and soybeans near Burkettsville, Ohio, said he had heard about the size of Brazilian soybean farms for years, but didn't understand it. "You can look in any direction and see wide-open land and planted crops," Schwieterman said. "At home, every place ...