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18 May 2020
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (DTN) -- A report of farm machinery sales in March hinted at the possible coming impact of COVID-19 on the industry. The pandemic, some speculated, would bring down the hammer on sales in April. But that did not happen.Overall tractor sales in April were up 12.3% from April 2019, accounting for more than 3,600 units overall, accord...
18 May 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- When it comes to attempting to help with a federal emergency, the old adage of "No good deed shall go unpunished" sometimes comes to mind.Take the plight of ethanol producers.An industry that produces billions of gallons of alcohol saw its fuel market crash with the country shutdown from the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, at least some et...
18 May 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Mother Nature has been throwing some mean punches recently, and Stephen Ellis has the bruised fields to prove it."Our April-planted soybeans were about 3 inches tall and had four leaves on them," the Tappahannock, Virginia, farmer said. Then the temperature dropped to 29 degrees Fahrenheit for several hours in the early morn...
15 May 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The families of two meatpacking plant workers have sued two companies, alleging the lack of safety precautions at work led to the COVID-19 deaths.JBS and Quality Sausage Company each face civil lawsuits, connected with the deaths of workers at a JBS meatpacking plant in Pennsylvania and at a QSC sausage plant in Texas.Meatpacking pla...
15 May 2020
Cattlemen and analysts are a lot alike -- we love it when the market is healthy, cringe when it's compromised, hate being caught blindsided by something we didn't foresee coming and often fall short as our human nature wishes for quick-fix solutions to our problems.As my time increases as both an analyst and cattleman, I realize there isn't much as...