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2 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Looking to respond to the growing economic crisis facing the country from the COVID-19 pandemic, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress on Tuesday announced a proposed coronavirus aid package costing $908 billion overall, including $26 billion for nutrition and agriculture. The proposal is less than half the cost of an aid packa...
2 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- With world crop prices on the rise, fertilizer should be more affordable in 2021 and farmers could be willing to spend more money for inputs, according to fertilizer analysts. While new global nitrogen supply projects are being pushed back into next year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, nitrogen supply and demand appear to be well-b...
1 Dec 2020
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at AGCO celebrating recent awards, Case-IH announcing tractor updates, HORSCH's new tillage tool for all soil types and conditions, and John Deere announcing a software update to help harvest forage and specialty crops. ** AGCO EARNS EIGHT AE50 AWARDS AGCO Corp. has been awarded eight AE50 Awa...
1 Dec 2020
This article was originally posted at 3:02 p.m. CST on Monday, Nov. 30. It was last updated at 3:35 p.m. CDT on Monday, Nov. 30. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. winter wheat's good-to-excellent rating gained back last week what it lost the previous week, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. This is the final weekly Crop Progr...
1 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. farmers still waiting for checks from the Syngenta corn settlement, can expect to see those payments in the next couple of months as a result of a court motion filed in federal court last week. A court motion filed by the claims administrator in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, calls for final disbursement to ...