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16 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agricultural groups talking trade policy on Tuesday repeated similar themes for the incoming Biden administration to pursue such as continuing trade talks with China and eliminating its trade tariffs, as well as rejoining a Pacific trade deal and modernizing transportation infrastructure. The Farmers for Free Trade coalition released...
15 Dec 2020
Agriculture is a family. It's a common saying. Many of today's farm and ranch operators have generations of agrarians behind them. They learned by just growing up on a farm and watching cattle worked or fields planted. It does something to a person's DNA. But what if you are not part of the family of agriculture? What if you don't have those childh...
15 Dec 2020
Christi Bland liked the farm well enough -- the happy assemblies of family friends, the easy pace of gardening with her grandmother, running among her father's flooded rice paddies. But she was eyeing medicine. Only five years ago, she earned a master's degree in science from Christian Brothers University and, before that, a bachelor's in chemistry...
15 Dec 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Don Stall, a corn grower from Charlotte, Michigan, pushed beyond 400 bushels per acre (bpa) this year, netting him the top yield of the NCGA's 2020 National Corn Yield Contest. Stall submitted a 476.91-bpa yield in the conventional irrigated corn category of the contest, with Pioneer hybrid P0720AM. The next highest yield in...
15 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA's final 2019 food-labeling rule will leave most bioengineered foods unlabeled, discriminate against tens of millions of Americans and prohibit retailers from providing more information to consumers, a new lawsuit filed this week against the agency alleges. In representing a coalition of food-labeling nonprofits and retailers, in...