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28 Apr 2020
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Although farm finances are tight for the fifth year in a row and the cash flow outlook is grim, farm tenants are generally honoring their leases this spring, real estate experts said, and land values appear to be holding steady. When most cash rents were paid on March 1, the co...
28 Apr 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst On March 31, four days after signing the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, President Donald Trump called for a $2-trillion infrastructure plan. He wrote on Twitter, "With interest rates for the United States being at zero, this is the time to do our decades-long awaited infrastructur...
28 Apr 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- The food supply chain is breaking, the chairman of Tyson Foods warned over the weekend amid an increasing clamor for a rapid federal response to restore operations to the country's meatpacking plants. Tyson Foods ran full-page advertisements in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the New York...
27 Apr 2020
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (DTN) -- Dairy and beef producers have always seen things from different sides of the fence. Give a dairy producer a heifer calf, and he feels like he just won the lottery. A beef producer, on the other hand, would take a steer over a heifer any day. What happens when these two c...
27 Apr 2020
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Bipartisan coalitions of senators and House members wrote to President Donald Trump on Thursday that the Agriculture Department's payment limits on the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) will limit its effectiveness for the cattle, pork and specialty crop sectors. Sens. Dianne...