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6 Oct 2016
By Danny KlinefelterDTN Farm Business Adviser To communicate effectively, we first have to get beyond the listener's concerns and perceptions that either distort or screen out much of the message we are trying to send. Whether we like it or not, the perception in the mind of the listener is his/her reality. In lender-borrower relationships there a...
5 Oct 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN continued to slide lower the fourth week of September 2016, although the amount of declines is not as much as in recent weeks. All eight of the major fertilizers are lower compared to last month with only two fertilizers down a considerable amount. Down 6% compar...
5 Oct 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- University of Kentucky plant pathologist Carl Bradley wasn't hunting for soybean rust when he stumbled across it in Illinois, in a field in Williamson County in early September this year. The disease was so far from Bradley's mind that it wasn't until he examined the samples back in his...
4 Oct 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- In 2014 the bio-based products industry contributed $393 billion and 4.2 million jobs to the U.S. economy, according to a report released by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a speech at the National Press Club on Monday. The report also indicates the sector grew from 2013 to 2014...
4 Oct 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Let me admit up front that I am a fan of the late Peter Drucker. Not that I knew him personally or even appreciated his work when it was assigned reading in college. But as I came to find out later, he had a keen eye for understanding how business worked in the real world and left behind a valuable legacy of advice for h...