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19 Apr 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- It's likely Sonny Perdue will be up to speed on the issues facing agriculture if the Senate follows through and votes to confirm Perdue early next week. That's the expectation of Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who told reporters on Tuesday he expects Perdue to be confirmed with flying colors, perhap...
19 Apr 2017
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- For View From the Cab farmer Zack Rendel of Miami, Oklahoma, success this spring can be summed up in five little words: "We switched the planter over." What he means is he finished corn planting with the completion of a side-by-side test plot Wednesday afternoon in plenty of time bef...
18 Apr 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The White House is still working on its infrastructure proposal, but a special assistant to the president sees the plan as a potential major boost in job creation and bipartisanship. D.J. Gribbin, the special assistant to President Donald Trump on infrastructure, spoke recently at a...
18 Apr 2017
By Anthony Greder DTN Managing Editor and Russ Quinn DTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- After debuting last week at a pace equal to the five-year average, U.S. corn planting progress fell behind normal in USDA's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday afternoon. USDA estimated 6% of the nation's corn crop was planted as of Sunday, behind last y...
18 Apr 2017
By Deborah R. Huso Progressive Farmer Contributor Once a month, Heidi Selken steps in front of a video camera and talks to a few hundred fourth-grade students about dairy farming ... as well as anyone else who might choose to tune in on the South Dakota Adopt-A-Farmer YouTube channel. Selken is herd manager at Boadwine Farms Inc., near Baltic, in ...