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9 Jul 2018
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Soybeans represent 41% of the value of U.S. products on China's retaliatory tariff list, and for South Dakota farmer Brandon Wipf, the financial toll adds up fast. "You're probably looking at over $100 an acre in loss," he told DTN. "We have to do some thinking about purchases...
9 Jul 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst The U.S winter wheat harvest has officially passed its halfway mark, according to the Sunday night observations accumulated in the weekly Crop Progress report from USDA. But in the western states where hard red winter wheat is grown, we might consider harvest to be somewhere around the three-fourths mark, with ...
6 Jul 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Scott Pruitt is out as EPA administrator after the embattled agency head tendered his resignation to President Donald Trump on Thursday. Trump made the announcement via Twitter on Thursday afternoon: "I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection ...
6 Jul 2018
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- As the smoke from barbeques and fireworks clears, the tariff picture is coming into focus, and it appears to be full steam ahead. Mexico is slated to join Canada on Thursday in placing new tariffs, and increasing others, on a number of U.S. agricultural goods in retaliation fo...
6 Jul 2018
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Holidays don't always happen for farmers -- well, not in the traditional sense anyway. While the rest of the country is having a blast on Independence Day, DTN's View From the Cab correspondents will be fitting field operations into the festivities while celebrating t...