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21 Nov 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Geoff Cooper remembers the open Wyoming landscape of Wind River Valley -- where his family farm dates back to the 1940s and the end of World War II. There, the new chief executive officer and president of the Renewable Fuels Association learned his work ethic from agriculture and patriotic service to ...
21 Nov 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The chairs of the House and Senate Agriculture committees remain silent on the status of farm bill conference negotiations, but there have been plenty of comments in the last few days about what is in the legislation, what isn't in it and what should be in it. Agriculture Secretary S...
20 Nov 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Any talk of Congressional reform of the Renewable Fuel Standard may have gone up in smoke following the recent election, as a spokesperson for the American Petroleum Institute told reporters on Monday the biofuels industry may be more secure than before the election. In the past two years, the Republi...
20 Nov 2018
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Contributing Editor INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Annual profits and losses in agriculture generally follow a rollercoaster path with sharp peaks and valleys. In the past, a tax-loss year would help farmers and ranchers offset profits from a future year. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 changed that equation and limits the b...
20 Nov 2018
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- An estimated 10% of the nation's corn crop and 9% of the soybean crop was left to harvest as of Sunday, Nov. 18, USDA's National Ag Statistics Service said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Monday. Corn harvest ended last week at 90% complete, up 6 percentage points from the previous week. Ha...