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6 Oct 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A recent legal move by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association to have a say in the release of documents related to government audits of the beef checkoff system has been challenged by the group that sued for those documents. A lawsuit filed in 2014 by the Organization for Competitive Markets demand...
6 Oct 2016
By Danny KlinefelterDTN Farm Business Adviser To communicate effectively, we first have to get beyond the listener's concerns and perceptions that either distort or screen out much of the message we are trying to send. Whether we like it or not, the perception in the mind of the listener is his/her reality. In lender-borrower relationships there a...
5 Oct 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN continued to slide lower the fourth week of September 2016, although the amount of declines is not as much as in recent weeks. All eight of the major fertilizers are lower compared to last month with only two fertilizers down a considerable amount. Down 6% compar...
5 Oct 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- University of Kentucky plant pathologist Carl Bradley wasn't hunting for soybean rust when he stumbled across it in Illinois, in a field in Williamson County in early September this year. The disease was so far from Bradley's mind that it wasn't until he examined the samples back in his...
4 Oct 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- In 2014 the bio-based products industry contributed $393 billion and 4.2 million jobs to the U.S. economy, according to a report released by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a speech at the National Press Club on Monday. The report also indicates the sector grew from 2013 to 2014...