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3 Oct 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter In my last column, I asked if anyone had any experience with Leader tractors, a name that appeared a couple different times on different tractors. This was after seeing a 1940s Leader tractor at a museum on our family vacation this summer in Branson, Missouri. I guess the answer was "No" because I didn't hear from an...
2 Oct 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter MONHEIM, Germany (DTN) -- At Bayer's annual Future of Farming Dialogue underway in Germany, company executives are touting their new pricing model, outcome-based pricing, as the potential pricing paradigm of the future. The model involves Bayer setting an expected yield outcome for a product or seed, based on a...
2 Oct 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The National Pork Producers Council, the National Milk Producers Federation and the National Corn Growers Association on Tuesday urged the Agriculture Department to move quickly to implement a bank for vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease. In a call to reporters, the groups said th...
2 Oct 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Ranchers in the Nebraska Sandhills have struggled to put up hay because of too much moisture. As a result, many in the region are faced with either buying feed or culling their cow numbers to try to trim feed costs, according to those familiar with the situation. This is the latest production-related i...
1 Oct 2019
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- A vast majority of corn and soybean farmers elected the Agriculture Risk Coverage program under the 2014 Farm Bill, but University of Illinois economists say growers are more likely to choose the Price Loss Coverage program for 2019 and 2020 crops. "The higher the prices, the m...