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8 May 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Reid Thompson isn't surprised to get skeptical looks when others learn he left an off-farm job to return home to farm full-time in 2019. The challenges agriculture has encountered make the security of a steady paycheck seem safer, if not downright enticing.Still, the Colfax, Illinois, farmer is holding tight to the conviction...
8 May 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against Smithfield Foods Inc. that alleged the company was not properly protecting workers from COVID-19 at a Milan, Missouri, packing plant.In April, the Public Justice Food Project filed a lawsuit on behalf of plant workers in the U.S. District Court for the District of Western Missour...
7 May 2020
SAC CITY, Iowa (DTN) -- Three tractors and planters seeded more than 500 acres of soybeans at a northwest Iowa farm last week with no one at the wheel.Sabanto, a Chicago-based robotic farming company, helped Bellcock Farms plant using remote-controlled utility tractors, each pulling five-row planters. Several other farmers in Iowa and Illinois have...
7 May 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices remain flat compared to last month, with the average price of all eight major fertilizers moving by $3/ton or less, according to prices tracked by DTN for the third week of April 2020.Six fertilizers were higher in price compared to last month, but none of them were up a significant amount, which DTN consider...
6 May 2020
GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- There are fat-cattle feeders in the countryside who haven't gotten a bid on their cattle in more than a month while boxed beef prices have soared into the stratosphere.Meanwhile, major grocers such Kroger, Costco, Walmart and Hy-Vee are now increasingly limiting meat sales. Even fast-food restaurant Wendy's -- once known for...