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30 Oct 2017
By Karl WolfshohlProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor Graduates of a rural high school in the Texas Panhandle find lots of homegrown financial help as they graduate and move on to higher education. That's due to the generosity of Karl Nielsen, an immigrant farmer from Denmark who passed away in 1984. He left a section of farmland in Hansford Coun...
27 Oct 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution that had earlier cleared the U.S. Senate, setting the stage for the Republicans to write a tax reform bill. The budget resolution will allow the Senate to consider a tax-reform bill without needing ...
27 Oct 2017
By Kathy Meyer Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor An army of scientists is hard at work to understand how plants sense, defend and adapt to harsh environments. "Plants can't relocate when conditions get tough. Survival relies on swiftly detecting changes and deploying the necessary defense strategies," explained Jian-Kang Zhu, distinguished pro...
27 Oct 2017
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor "I'm sinking like a rock," Grant Corley, owner of Corley Seed Co., said, as he recalled a day in 2015 when he nearly lost his life. In the moment before Corley found himself in that quickly worsening situation, he had merely stumbled inside a bin he was vacuuming soybeans from to a truck parked outside ...
26 Oct 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Four of the eight average retail fertilizer prices were higher, three were lower and one remained unchanged in the third week of October 2017 compared to one month earlier, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. Urea was up 9% compared to a month ago with an average price of $340 per ton. ...