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21 Nov 2017
By Dan Crummett Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Most sports coaches will confess that talent can win games, but character and attitude win championships. Zack Rendel would add that studying and deploying the winning practices of champions doesn't hurt the odds either. Last winter, Rendel told a room full of farmers at Commodity Classic that ...
20 Nov 2017
By DTN Staff Kris Ehler is man enough to admit he loves to receive flowers on his birthday. However, the Thomasboro, Illinois, farmer isn't referring to a traditional bouquet. Instead, he's talking about flowers in soybean fields. For Ehler, seeing the first blooms on June 1 is the perfect present. Soybeans flowering this soon may be uncommon for ...
20 Nov 2017
By Jerry Hagstrom DTN Political Correspondent and Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The Senate Finance Committee finished a markup of its tax-overhaul bill on Thursday, paving the way for it to go to the Senate floor after the Thanksgiving break. The House passed its tax bill on Thursday as well. The House bill passed by a vot...
20 Nov 2017
By Lori CullerDTN HR Columnist Have you ever hired someone only to be sadly disappointed in your pick within the first few weeks? Farmers often get trapped between two extremes when hiring: We rely on our gut to read people through casual conversation and never dig deeper, or we rely too heavily on the individual's background and ignore character f...
17 Nov 2017
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Several years ago, my elderly mother, never one to go gently into that good night of old school and low tech, informed me she needed to learn to use the computer. When I asked the stubborn octogenarian "why," she boldly (if belatedly) predicted that it probably represented the wave of the future. Who could ar...