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8 Aug 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Brittany Wilbanks doesn't need to look at the U.S. Drought Monitor map to know it is extremely dry in Missouri this growing season. Wilbanks and her husband, Seth, farm and raise cattle near Sedalia, Missouri, and have seen Mother Nature constantly throw weather curveballs at them this year. "It's been...
7 Aug 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst On Aug. 1, 2007, at 6:05 pm CDT during rush hour in downtown Minneapolis, the I-35W bridge collapsed, sending cars, construction workers and trucks in to the Mississippi River below. A school bus carrying 63 children was also on the bridge, sitting precariously on a portion of the bridge that did not fall into...
7 Aug 2018
By Del DeterlingProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor When Chandler Lindsley picked up the reins as manager of her family's Backbone Ranch in 2011, she already had a good idea about how best to use the resources she had inherited. "We had plenty of grass and water," she said of the 47-year-old Texas operation. "What we needed was a way to convert ...
7 Aug 2018
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and soybean progress continued at a faster-than-normal pace last week, while good-to-excellent condition ratings for both crops declined slightly, according to the USDA National Ag Statistics Service's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. Nationwide, 57% of corn was in the dough stage...
6 Aug 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Bloomberg News, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, the National Press Club, the National Press Foundation and DTN/The Progressive Farmer have sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue challenging USDA's decision last month to abolish the "lockup" during which news organizati...