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7 Aug 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst On Aug. 1, 2007, at 6:05 pm CDT during rush hour in downtown Minneapolis, the I-35W bridge collapsed, sending cars, construction workers and trucks in to the Mississippi River below. A school bus carrying 63 children was also on the bridge, sitting precariously on a portion of the bridge that did not fall into...
7 Aug 2018
By Del DeterlingProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor When Chandler Lindsley picked up the reins as manager of her family's Backbone Ranch in 2011, she already had a good idea about how best to use the resources she had inherited. "We had plenty of grass and water," she said of the 47-year-old Texas operation. "What we needed was a way to convert ...
7 Aug 2018
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and soybean progress continued at a faster-than-normal pace last week, while good-to-excellent condition ratings for both crops declined slightly, according to the USDA National Ag Statistics Service's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. Nationwide, 57% of corn was in the dough stage...
6 Aug 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Bloomberg News, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, the National Press Club, the National Press Foundation and DTN/The Progressive Farmer have sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue challenging USDA's decision last month to abolish the "lockup" during which news organizati...
6 Aug 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Responding to the U.S. push for higher tariffs on Chinese goods, Chinese officials announced Friday they would impose new tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. products, adding up to more than 5,200 items. Without giving specifics on the items involved, China said its new tariffs would range from 5% to ...