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8 Jun 2020
Believe it or not, now is a great time to hire. The agricultural supply chain has been experiencing a talent shortage for years. The good news to come out of this pandemic is the pool of available talent has expanded, and we need to capitalize on this opportunity.Many talented technicians, operators, managers, engineers and more are being furloughe...
8 Jun 2020
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Any of us can pick up a chart and say "oh, we should have bought here and sold there," but few of us -- maybe none of us -- actually do it in real time. I find the disconnect fascinating between what we should have done and what we actually did because it points out how difficult it is to see events clearly as we tru...
5 Jun 2020
Dan Crummett, Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Over the past 15 years, Tom, Dan and Ben Griffin have been partnering with conservationists to improve grazing on their two fifth-generation Texas ranches, parlaying brush-control programs into better shortgrass pastures, all the while fighting drought and natural succession of mesquite and cedar...
5 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 8:08 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, June 3. It was last updated at 11:26 a.m. CDT on Thursday, June 4.**ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision Wednesday vacating the registrations of three dicamba herbicides, XtendiMax (Bayer), Engenia (BASF) and FeXapan (Corteva). The...
5 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farm groups and various officials continue to press USDA to broaden the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) as they highlight agricultural products left out of the program.USDA announced on Thursday that the department already has approved more than $545 million in payments. Since starting signup on May 26, USDA has received m...