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25 Aug 2022
It might be time to lift the lid on a couple of key pieces of equipment important to the upcoming harvest: the grain wagon and the grain dryer. "The grain cart is a hard-working piece of equipment, so you'll want to be sure it's in good operating order before the combines roll," Justin Render, Kinze senior product specialist, told DTN/Progressive F...
24 Aug 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Financially distressed farmers who have gotten forbearance for delinquent debt on Farm Service Agency (FSA) loans may have to wait until at least October to find out if they will qualify for debt relief under new funds provided by the Inflation Reduction Act. USDA isn't ready to share details on how it will use a pot of $3.1 billion ...
24 Aug 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to move lower, according to prices tracked by DTN for the third week of August 2022. For three weeks in a row, all eight of the major fertilizers are less expensive compared to a month ago. After a week in which half the fertilizer prices were notably lower, only one fertilizer was considerably lower...
23 Aug 2022
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (DTN) -- A group of agricultural leaders from the upper Midwest gathered this week at this lakeside community to dive into the weeds of farm policy to see how producer groups and agribusinesses in the upper Midwest could have more influence on the farm bill. The policy talks marked the inaugural meeting of the Midwest Council o...
23 Aug 2022
By Matthew Wilde, Progressive Farmer Crops Editor and Susan Payne, DTN Social Media Editor ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Details of USDA's new $300 million Organic Transition Initiative, funded in part by the American Rescue Plan, were revealed Monday. The program provides opportunities for new and beginning farmers to transition to organic production to b...