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29 May 2024
Editor's Note: Throughout May, DTN/Progressive Farmer's special series "Mental Health Hope & Help" is exploring the unique mental health challenges people in rural America face, highlighting efforts to overcome stigma and looking at ways farmers and ranchers can manage their mental wellness. This is the 11th story in the series. ** The prevalence o...
28 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a feed ingredient that reduces methane in lactating dairy cows -- a move that could help dairy producers get paid through voluntary carbon markets -- while USDA began taking steps to develop standards for carbon programs. Elanco on Tuesday announced the FDA has approved its feed additive ...
28 May 2024
This article was originally published at 3:03 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, May 28. It was last updated with additional information at 4:03 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, May 28. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Periods of heavy rain across the country slowed corn planting last week, but overall, progress nationwide inched slightly ahead of the five-year average pace, USDA NASS rep...
27 May 2024
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Speaking to meat exporters and livestock producers last week, the administrator for USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service stressed the need for U.S. agriculture to start creating new markets in regions such as Africa. USDA earlier in the week had announced $300 million for the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (RAPP). ...
27 May 2024
By Mike Watkins, DTN Correspondent Editor's Note: Throughout May, DTN/Progressive Farmer's special series "Mental Health Hope & Help" is exploring the unique mental health challenges people in rural America face, highlighting efforts to overcome stigma and looking at ways farmers and ranchers can manage their mental wellness. This is the 10th story...