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15 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 fifth story in the series. ** My newborn baby...
15 May 2024
COLBY, Kan. (DTN) -- Day 1 of the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Winter Wheat Tour concluded Tuesday, May 14, with a total weighted average yield estimate of 49.9 bushels per acre (bpa). It was the second-highest Day 1 yield average in the past decade for the tour, being bested only by 2021 when the route averaged 59.2 bpa. Nearly 75 tour participant...
14 May 2024
COLBY, Kan. (DTN) -- Day 1 of the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Winter Wheat Tour concluded Tuesday, May 14, with a total weighted average yield estimate of 49.9 bushels per acre (bpa). Field sampling occurred along six routes in northwest and north-central Kansas from Manhattan to Colby, along with some sampling in select counties in southern Nebra...
14 May 2024
By Todd Neeley, DTN Environmental Editor, and Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking restitution for defrauded customers of Agridime LLC, and its co-founders Joshua Link and Jed Wood, as well as civil monetary penalties, a trading ban and permanent injunction agains...
13 May 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Biden administration and state regulators in California have exceeded their constitutional authority by forcing truck fleet owners across the country to transition to electric trucks, according to two federal lawsuits filed by multiple states on Monday. Attorneys general in 24 states filed a petition for review in the U.S...