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23 Nov 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst There are certain noises almost guaranteed to catch any human being's attention: like the ch-ch-ch-ch-ch of coins (or corn kernels) tumbling on top of each other into a rich pile, or the alternating ooo-Ooo-ooo-Ooo of an ambulance siren or the rising boop-dee-dee-boop tones on a combine harvester's grain tank a...
21 Nov 2018
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Tax treatment of equipment trade-ins got a tune-up in 2017's tax reform legislation. Experts say provisions restricting like-kind exchanges for machinery are offset by more generous rules on depreciation, resulting in little change to federal tax returns. The complication: many...
21 Nov 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Geoff Cooper remembers the open Wyoming landscape of Wind River Valley -- where his family farm dates back to the 1940s and the end of World War II. There, the new chief executive officer and president of the Renewable Fuels Association learned his work ethic from agriculture and patriotic service to ...
21 Nov 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The chairs of the House and Senate Agriculture committees remain silent on the status of farm bill conference negotiations, but there have been plenty of comments in the last few days about what is in the legislation, what isn't in it and what should be in it. Agriculture Secretary S...
20 Nov 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Any talk of Congressional reform of the Renewable Fuel Standard may have gone up in smoke following the recent election, as a spokesperson for the American Petroleum Institute told reporters on Monday the biofuels industry may be more secure than before the election. In the past two years, the Republi...