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26 Jan 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Among Karl Jacobson's chores this week was buying alfalfa hay from a neighbor. The Concordia, Kansas, farmer and cow-calf producer was short of hay this winter for his herd because of the continuing drought affecting parts of the Western Corn Belt (WCB). "My alfalfa was half of what I normally get," Jacobson said. "My prairie hay was...
25 Jan 2024
In family-farm and ranch transitions, valuable gifts are an integral part of estate-planning strategies. Money, land, equipment, shares of a legal entity or family heirlooms were accumulated over a lifetime or were originally purchased with scarce economic resources, and have high economic or sentimental value. Another set of gifts have a high valu...
25 Jan 2024
PHOENIX (DTN) -- The United States needs to negotiate more free trade agreements in order to diversify agricultural export markets, but that's unlikely in the near future whether President Biden wins re-election or former President Trump returns to office, Michael Dykes, president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association, told his membe...
24 Jan 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mostly lower in the third week of January 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the fourth consecutive week, six of the eight major fertilizers were lower in price compared to last month while the remaining two fertilizers were slightly higher. DTN designates a significant mo...
23 Jan 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (DTN) -- If an immigration-labor deal develops in Congress, the American Farm Bureau Federation might be willing to accept caps on the number of visas for a year-round agricultural worker program. Delegates at the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) convention in Salt Lake City on Tuesday voted for changes in the group's policy bo...