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6 Jun 2024
DES MOINES (DTN) -- Pork producers are expected to have a better year in 2024, but stresses such as fewer shackle spaces due to plant closures will prevent profits from being positive. Steve Meyer, lead economist for Ever.Ag, told attendees at the 2024 World Pork Expo here on Wednesday that while 2023 was the worst year in history for pork producti...
6 Jun 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Nebraska farmer Quentin Connealy put his crayons and field maps away for good last spring, and instead submitted crop insurance acreage planted reports electronically. This spring, he'll file his Farm Services Agency acreage reports that way, too. He spent an hour connecting his MyAgData account to his John Deere Operatio...
6 Jun 2024
This article was originally posted at 4:46 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, June 5. It was updated at 11:07 a.m. CDT on Thursday, June 6, with information on a new report of H5N1 cases in a central Minnesota dairy herd. ** DES MOINES (DTN) -- Minnesota and Iowa now have each confirmed new cases of H5N1 avian influenza in dairy herds. The Minnesota Board of A...
6 Jun 2024
RIVERSIDE, Iowa (DTN) -- The word "massive" came up often when officials with Continuum Ag spoke about the potential for biofuels producers and farmers to cash in on the upcoming 45Z tax credit, at the company's annual topsoil summit in Riverside, Iowa, on Monday. The question of how -- or if -- agriculture will see a payout from the $1 per-gallon ...
5 Jun 2024
DES MOINES, Iowa (DTN) -- Iowa became the 10th state with a dairy herd confirmed to be infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship reported a dairy herd had detected the H5N1 virus in O'Brien County, which is in the state's northwest corner. With the Iowa herd, there are 83 dairies confirmed...