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8 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 second story in the series. ** Anyone observi...
8 May 2024
In its Friday, May 10, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, USDA will update old-crop estimates as well as establish new estimates for the 2024-25 season. The Crop Production report from NASS will give the first production estimates for this year's winter wheat crops with state breakdowns. CORN According to USDA, the new U...
7 May 2024
"Active" continues to be the word used most often when describing the weather patterns this spring. It doesn't seem to matter the configuration; storm systems have continually pushed through North America over the last several months. That is partially due to the above-normal sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific which are indicative of ...
7 May 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A Tennessee sanitation company has been slapped with civil penalties after allegedly employing children in hazardous jobs to clean slaughtering and meatpacking facilities operated by Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC and Perdue Farms, according to a consent order and judgment approved Monday by a federal court. Somerville, Tennessee...
7 May 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- One of the biggest challenges for dairy farmers dealing with the H5N1 flu virus is how it has affected all farms despite whether they are infected, to prevent the spread of the disease. A recent USDA mandate requires all lactating dairy cows to be tested free of the virus prior to movement and all positive results to be repo...