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23 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- More farmers likely will be filing Chapter 12 bankruptcy in 2018, as they continue to struggle with costs of production exceeding commodity prices, ag lender CoBank said in a new report. The CoBank report, "Forces that will shape the U.S. rural economy in 2018," said commodity price depression from su...
22 Jan 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The last two weeks in Congress highlight the improbability of getting a farm bill done on time. Regardless of whether the lights remain on at federal agencies after Friday, Congress and the White House will be battling over a bill to fund the federal government and just how far to go with any pos...
22 Jan 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Less than a year after devastating wildfires raced through Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, the Central and Southern Plains are facing higher-than-usual potential of wildland fires through April, according to Kansas State University scientists and a government organization that assesses such risks. In early...
22 Jan 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- While members of Congress try to deconstruct a tax-law change that drives farm sales to cooperatives over private companies, farmers are taking advantage of the law change and wondering whether they will get to continue reaping the rewards. Then there are the farmers who would like to take advan...
19 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- In the months that followed the March 2017 wildfires in the Texas Panhandle, volunteer fire departments and others began asking questions: What could have been done differently to combat the blaze, but also to prepare for it? Farmers and ranchers continued to search for answers as to how they could ha...