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13 Sep 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst "We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." - Rabindranath Tagore, poet. Have you ever had one of those nagging feelings that something isn't right, but couldn't quite put your finger on it? When it comes to talking markets, I've had that sense for a long time. At times, it felt like I was speaking a different...
12 Sep 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- When President Donald Trump traveled to North Dakota last week to further his push for tax reform, the president highlighted the need to eliminate the estate tax. "We'll also protect small businesses and family farmers here in North Dakota and across the country by ending the death tax," Tru...
12 Sep 2017
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst USDA's September Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports usually don't get much attention. Sure, media types flock to the lock-up like always and analysts drool at the prospect of having another set of estimates to analyze, but generally speaking, grain and oilseeds market...
12 Sep 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst Many cotton farmers in eastern and southern Texas were anticipating a strong crop this year, only to see their hopes washed away by Hurricane Harvey. Now they're trying to salvage what's left of their crops. After coming ashore in Texas on the night of Friday, Aug. 25, Harvey became the strongest hurricane to...
11 Sep 2017
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser The best qualities of being together as a family can have disastrous implications for being together in a business. The strengths of history, relationship, affection and inclusion, when carried too far into the business context, can create significant limitations. The virtues that produce long-term (versus...