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26 Mar 2024
On Thursday, March 28, USDA will issue its annual Prospective Plantings survey and March 1 Grain Stocks report at 11 a.m. CDT, a combination that gets attention and has sparked sizeable price moves in prior years. PROSPECTIVE PLANTINGS With the calendar turned to spring, the new planting season is not far away. USDA will release the results of its ...
25 Mar 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA and other federal agencies on Monday confirmed that an unknown number of dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas dairy farms have become sick with highly pathogenic avian influenza. During the past two years, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has led to infections and depopulation of more than 115 million chickens and turkeys in...
25 Mar 2024
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Nick Oomen, who grows about 2,000 acres of fruits and vegetables near Hart, Michigan, was among the farmers the American Farm Bureau Federation flew into Washington last week to meet with lawmakers about agricultural labor needs and pressures. Farmers are frustrated over how the U.S. Department of Labor comes up with numbers for...
25 Mar 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- California consumers are paying higher pork prices than the rest of the country following the full implementation of the state's animal welfare law Proposition 12 on Jan. 1, 2024. This is according to a new analysis conducted by USDA economists on behalf of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics at the University o...
24 Mar 2024
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of March 24. Watch for coverage of these and other topics through the week on our subscription platforms as well as on www.DTNPF.com. Note that all webinar and report release times are Central Daylight Time (CDT) unless otherwise noted. 1. March USDA rep...