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7 Aug 2020
INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Alan Hojer, a succession planning consultant, was busy before the pandemic, but calls from farmers and ranchers looking to begin or update their plan have accelerated since COVID-19 began circling the globe."The main obstacle is not that they don't want to have a transition plan for their farm, it's that they don't know whe...
7 Aug 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The ethanol industry continues to wait for a decision from EPA on 86 pending small-refinery exemptions after the U.S. Department of Energy finished a review and sent those requests back to EPA.During a news conference on Thursday, Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper said the small-refinery exemption program nee...
6 Aug 2020
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The average retail price of DAP and MAP fertilizers inched higher this week, while the rest of the complex saw continued declines, according to prices tracked by DTN for the last week of July 2020.DAP prices increased by an average of $4 to $410 per ton. MAP showed a smaller increase of $2, putting the average retail pric...
6 Aug 2020
Through the spitfire that 2020 has coined its appearance with, the spirit of cattlemen is still alive and well in the feeder cattle market. Bears would argue that the gesture "alive and well" is polite rhetoric for a complex that's overbought and soon to fall flat as feeder cattle healthily line the sandhills, northern range and feedlots of the Mid...
6 Aug 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- As agriculture continues to grapple with the fallout from the COVID-19 economic shutdown, recent reports suggest the industry will see financial pressure for the remainder of 2020.The number of farm bankruptcies continues to rise and a struggling livestock industry is putting increasing pressure on loan portfolios, both adding to con...