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13 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 fourth story in the series. ** The farmer cap...
12 May 2024
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Dan Lakey's favorite phrase to disprove is "that'll never work here." From the conservation practices he's adopted to the crops being grown, the southeastern Idaho farmer has made it his business to buck convention. Since leaving the business world to come back to the home farm in 2009, he's made soil science a focus. No-till...
10 May 2024
The May USDA Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports released on Friday gave us the first glimpse of U.S. wheat production and row-crop balance sheets for the 2024-25 crop year. The reports showed few major surprises in wheat or soybeans, but a reduction in ending stocks for corn in both crop years sent th...
10 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- As the bird flu outbreak in dairy cows continues to uptick in herds affected, USDA announced Friday that it is offering some financial assistance to dairy farms affected by the H5N1 virus. USDA payments totaling $98 million are available to farmers with lost milk production, as well as personal protection equipment (PPE) and increase...
10 May 2024
By DTN Staff This article was originally published at 11:01 a.m. CDT on Friday, May 10. It was last updated with additional information at 11:30 a.m. CDT on Friday, May 10. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Friday forecast farmers this spring are planting what will become a 14.86-billion-bushel corn crop and a 4.45-billion-bushel soybean crop. USDA estimat...