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28 Jan 2019
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Blue Cross Blue Shield discontinued Nebraska farmer Randy Uhrmacher's group insurance plan at the beginning of 2018. He and his wife, Kathy, joined her employer's insurance for a year, but it was more expensive. "We were looking for better options," Uhrmacher said. At a 2018 fa...
25 Jan 2019
By Joel ReichenbergerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor History remembers little about June 22, 1969, but Dale Johnson does. That's the day he went from being a teenager who helped on the family farm to an actual farmer -- a young man with a plot and a plan. He rented a quarter section, 160 acres, from his grandfather, who'd taken on the ground near ...
25 Jan 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- A number of farm groups joined a larger business effort to urge the Trump administration to end the tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the 45 industry groups said that companie...
25 Jan 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C., (DTN) -- As the partial federal shutdown continues, more issues are being raised about topics such as commodity trades, food aid and local farmer committees. The partial shutdown entered its 35th day on Friday with no resolution in sight after competing bills failed in the U.S. Senate o...
24 Jan 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- A number of farm groups joined a larger business effort to urge the Trump administration to end the tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the 45 industry groups said that companie...