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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...
19 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Attorneys representing farmers from across the country who filed multiple lawsuits alleging off-target dicamba damage to their crops will try to convince a federal panel of judges next week that the cases should be heard in a single court. The seven-judge U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigatio...
19 Jan 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- JBS USA has announced the sale of the world's largest cattle-feeding operation, Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, to affiliates of Pinnacle Asset Management LP, in a sale valued at approximately $200 million. JBS USA had been shopping around for a buyer for Five Rivers Cattle Feeding since last summer a...
18 Jan 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to shift higher the second week of January 2018, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. The good news for farmers facing higher fertilizer prices is a majority of farmers appear to have already purchased at least some of their needs for the upcoming growing s...