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29 Mar 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Perhaps, sitting in a bar one evening, a friend told you that corn yields tend to be great during years that end in "6." Or perhaps you've heard of the 18-year cycle in the stock markets? Or the 60-year cycle in wheat prices? Or the 14 3/4-year cycle in soybean prices, which only holds true if the previous year...
28 Mar 2018
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent WUHAN, Hubei Province, China (DTN) -- On a trip last week from Beijing to south China, a visiting Iowa Soybean Association delegation sought to ease concerns about possible Chinese tariffs on soybeans and to emphasize shared benefits of trade. "We're hopeful the rhetoric between the politicians isn't too damaging a...
28 Mar 2018
By Karen McMahonProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor Farming on the northern edge of the Corn Belt where Jeff and Cindy Tiemann live means enduring subzero temperatures and snow-covered ground in the winter. This would be tolerable if outside machinery work wasn't involved. But, for many years, that wasn't the case at their Royalton, Minnesota, f...
28 Mar 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Shortly after Christmas of 2016, I wrote a column, "Soybeans' Gathering Storm," which anticipated what might happen if newly elected President Donald Trump followed up on his campaign promises to get tough with China on trade (https://bit.ly/…). It took another year for trade tensions to build, but it seems clear that the...
27 Mar 2018
By Becky MillsProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor If you want proof Keith Tuck's rotational-grazing system works, take a look at his hay equipment. Oh, wait. It's gone. He sold it in 2016. "It was a hard decision to make," the Moneta, Virginia, cattleman, admits. "My hay equipment sat there for two years before I took the plunge. But, it is a wh...