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6 Jan 2022
It's the time of year for predictions and speculations about how 2022 will unfold. Premier agricultural lender CoBank is part of that scene. CoBank's 2022 outlook "The Year Ahead: Forces That Will Shape the U.S. Rural Economy" was recently posted on the bank's website. The report features the usual items one expects from a big lender: global and U....
5 Jan 2022
LAS VEGAS (DTN) -- John Deere unveiled Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics (CES) show in Las Vegas a fully autonomous production tractor ready for delivery to its customers this year. This first autonomous system from Deere combines its autonomous Deere 8R tractor with a TruSet enabled chisel plow, GPS guidance system, and other new advanced techno...
5 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agricultural exporters moving goods out of the Port of Oakland, California, could get more ability to move their products onto an outgoing ship. The Port of Oakland has announced plans to improve the flow of ag exports following an emergency meeting last month with state and federal officials about port congestion. The Oakland port w...
5 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to rise but at smaller percentages, according to prices for the last week of December 2021. Only two fertilizers were up a considerable amount. DTN designates a substantial move as anything 5% or more. Leading the way higher was anhydrous, up 9% from a month prior. The nitrogen fertilizer's average p...
4 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. dairy industry is claiming a victory over Canada's dairy import limits in the first trade dispute case brought under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The dispute panel agreed with the U.S. that Canada isn't meeting its commitments under USMCA in the way Canada set up its tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for dairy ...