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5 Sep 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- USDA forecasts 2024 net farm income 4.4% lower than last year at $140 billion. That's a sharp reversal from USDA's February forecast, which called for a 25% decline in net farm income, the agency's broad way of measuring profits across the various ag sectors. Net cash farm income, which accounts only for gross cash income...
5 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden and his administration are championing new investments in rural energy as the president travels to Wisconsin on Thursday to announce $7.3 billion in rural electric grants and loans. The president will visit Westby, a town in southwestern Wisconsin, with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to announce grants and loan...
4 Sep 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Following U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's announcement last week of USDA's approval of vaccine testing for H5N1 for cattle, South Dakota-based animal health vaccine manufacturer Medgene has responded to the notice. "We have a number of companies that have been working on vaccines, and one company has presented su...
4 Sep 2024
This article was originally published at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Sept. 3. It was last updated with additional information at 3:14 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Sept. 3. OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn conditions held while and soybean conditions fell last week, according to USDA NASS' weekly national Crop Progress report released Tuesday. Corn was rated 65% in good-t...
4 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of August 2024 continue to show lower prices. For the sixth week in a row, no fertilizers' price showed a substantial move in either direction. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. All eight of the major fertilizers were lower compared to last month but ...