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23 Sep 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst Each year that passes is a little different from the one before and often has its own lessons. From my perspective, the summer of 2019 will be remembered for tough financial conditions on the farm, emotions that ran high and three incidents that triggered anger in the country. For regular readers of this column, I do...
20 Sep 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The House of Representatives easily passed a continuing resolution Thursday afternoon to keep the federal government operating until at least Nov. 21 and also ensuring commodity and trade-aid payments would go to farmers without delay. The House voted 301-123 on the short-term funding measur...
20 Sep 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- At least part of China's trade team negotiating in Washington, D.C., this week will take some time to visit U.S. farms, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue confirmed Thursday. Perdue was asked about the farm visits at a press event with three of his predecessors to champion the U.S.-Mexico-Ca...
20 Sep 2019
MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Farmers have to post jobs domestically before they can hire foreign workers for seasonal agriculture work, but for years, the law governing H-2A visas required them to publish the job in newspapers. That changes in October, according to a rule finalized by the Department of Labor on Friday. Under the new rule, jobs ca...
19 Sep 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Fertilizer prices continue to erode, but the pace of decline slowed, according to retailers tracked by DTN for the second week of September 2019. It's the fifth consecutive week that the price of all eight fertilizers fell. One difference, however, is that only one price dropped significantly, which DT...