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17 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA will reopen about half of the country's Farm Service Agency offices for three days starting Thursday to help farmers with existing farm loans and provide tax documents to borrowers such as 1099 forms. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Wednesday that about 2,500 Farm Service Agency...
17 Jan 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Consulting Analyst NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- Hemp was a big deal at the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting. U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who began advocating for industrial hemp while he was Kentucky's agriculture secretary, talked about the crop and the 2018 farm bill, which removes hemp from being classified as a controll...
17 Jan 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst The corn market had been moseying in an upward direction through fall and winter, and then, upon approaching the higher end of its long-term sideways range, it started moseying back away. Front-month corn futures haven't ventured below $3.01 or above $4.39 1/4 per bushel since June 2014. They haven't even ventu...
16 Jan 2019
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Dying without a will or without properly structured farmland ownership can make life messy for heirs. In many of those situations, the next generation owns the land as tenants-in-common, and if the owners can't agree on how to split the property, they can go to court for a judg...
16 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- In the middle of his speech Monday to members of the American Farm Bureau Federation, President Donald Trump was explaining the need for a wall on the southern border when the president asked a 79-year-old Arizona rancher to come on stage and say a few words. Sporting a white cowboy hat and...