Author: Membership

US-CHINA TRADE WAR FORCING FARMERS TO TAKE 2ND JOBS –

A nine-and-a-half-hour drive from Illinois to Nebraska is a regular day in the life for corn and soybean farmer Mark Tuttle. Five days a week, the DeKalb County native transports … Read More

AG EQUIPMENT MAKERS PINCHED BY TRADE TENSIONS –

Major manufacturers like John Deere are feeling the impact of extreme weather and the ongoing trade on the ag industry. Caterpillar says sales of tractors and combines have been down … Read More

FARMERS AND RANCHERS CELEBRATE JAPANESE TRADE DEAL, LOOK FORWARD TO MORE –

President Trump today signed the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, which is an important step forward with U.S. agriculture’s fourth-largest export market. The Japan bilateral agreement keeps intact essentially all the trade … Read More

A SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER –

Many farmers hoped for some additional heat units in September to help late-planted crops catch up on maturity. And most got just that. The statewide temperature last month averaged a … Read More

5 WAYS TO COPE WITH TOUGH TIMES –

Today’s tough economic times are affecting farmers’ bottom lines. How to cope? Here are some ideas from four farmers: Use technology wisely, sell direct to end users, don’t forget carbon … Read More

U.S. WIDENS TRADE WAR WITH TARIFFS ON EUROPEAN PLANES, CHEESE, WHISKY –

The U.S. on Wednesday said it would slap 10% tariffs on European-made Airbus planes and 25% duties on French wine, Scotch and Irish whiskies, and cheese from across the continent … Read More

BIG TECH’S ECO-PLEDGES AREN’T SLOWING ITS PURSUIT OF BIG OIL –

Employee activism and outside pressure have pushed big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google into promising to slash their carbon emissions. But there’s another thing these tech giants aren’t … Read More

USDA INVESTS $11M IN RESEARCH THAT WILL SUPPORT SPECIALTY CROP FARMERS –

U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Scott Hutchins announced today that the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has invested $11 million in research that will support specialty … Read More

HARVEST FORECAST ALL ABOUT ‘CONTRAST’ –

Looking ahead at the harvest forecast, the key word is “contrast,” according to DTN Chief Agriculture Meteorologist Bryce Anderson. “This is going to be a real notable feature during this … Read More

TRUMP IMPEACHMENT FIGHT HURTING MARKET FOR BIOFUEL CREDITS –

The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is reverberating in the market for biofuel credits as his fight against Democrats is likely to take precedence over the “giant package” for … Read More

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