E15 Gasoline on Horizon
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Ethanol and farm groups praised an Environmental Protection Agency decision Friday to approve a higher level blend of ethanol known as E15, but the Environmental...

Conservation Challenges Ahead
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Despite the economics of crop production and federal spending right now, there is still room for conservation practices and promoting wildlife, USDA\'s...

Small Business and Farm Bill
OMAHA (DTN) -- The House Small Business Committee is taking a bigger role in discussions about the farm bill and issues farmers and livestock producers face as small businesses.\nSmall...

LightSquared Responds to FCC
OMAHA (DTN) -- Officials with telecommunications company LightSquared and its majority owner Harbinger Capital Partners lashed out at the Federal Communications Commission\'s decision...

Brace for Ag Export Shock
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (DTN) -- Europe\'s unresolved financial crisis is "a huge, huge issue" and a looming threat to U.S. agriculture\'s prosperity, analysts told a...

Farm Bill Needs Differ
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (DTN) -- Farm group representatives indicated they are sticking to their individual positions on farm bill proposals at the annual crop insurance industry conference...

Senators Defend Crop Insurance
OMAHA (DTN) --- The crop insurance industry has friends in the country, and in the U.S. Senate.\nA Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on Wednesday was meant to focus on energy and...

Spotlight on China Ag Trade
OMAHA (DTN) -- The visit by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to Iowa today and Thursday will highlight some of the trade issues between China and the U.S. over products such as beef...

Beef Exports Still Growing
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (DTN) -- Expect beef exports to keep up the record-setting pace in 2012. CattleFax CEO Randy Blach said he expects exports will increase 10% but other estimat...

Farm Labor Change Not Enough
OMAHA (DTN) -- Changes to a child labor rule that give farm kids special permission to work for their families aren't enough to satisfy members of a House Small Business Subcommittee,...

Farm Bill Hearings Planned
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Four hearings will be held in February and March in hopes of bringing a farm bill to the Senate floor before the House acts, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman...

Herd Expansion, Demand on NCBA's Plate
OMAHA (DTN) -- Market signals are telling cattle ranchers to rebuild the nation's herd, and it's sure to be a prime topic of conversation at this year's annual Cattle Industry Convention...

GOP Pushes Keystone Project
OMAHA (DTN) -- Fireworks continued on Capitol Hill Wednesday during a House hearing on a proposed bill designed to cut the U.S. State Department out of the Keystone XL pipeline decision-...

Heaven and Earth for a Farm Bill
SALINA, Kan. (DTN) -- Despite election-year rhetoric in Congress, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas still sees an opportunity to finish a farm bill in 2012, saying he...

Study Sounds Alarm on Waterway System
OMAHA (DTN) -- A failure at one of six focus locks in a new study would cost agricultural producers between $900,000 and $45 million depending on how long t...

Real Estate on Hold
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (DTN) -- Farmland owners were told to expect 2012 to be a "year of paralysis" in the general economy when economists addressed ...

Crop Insurance Tweaked
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Midwest farmers are giving their seal of approval to the new Trend-Adjusted APH Yield Option meant to correct for yield drag in federal crop insurance cove...

Help Your Horse Understand Human Touch
Watch Michael Richardson's the Gift of the Horse© on Tuesdays at 5:30pm ET, Wednesdays at 3:30am ET and Sundays at 2:30pm ET only on RFD-TV The fundamental purp...

GIPSA Head Resigns
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- J. Dudley Butler, the controversial administrator of the Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration, announced Thursday that he would resign. "...

Consider Production Risk in Sales
OMAHA (DTN) -- Life doesn\'t offer many second chances. So when commodity markets first offered Nebraska farmer Les Albrecht $6 and better corn, he didn\'t hesitate. He is not only...

Vilsack Toots USDA's Horn
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- In a series of events that could be considered related to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack traveled to C...

Ag Policy Outlook
OMAHA (DTN) -- The potential sunset of direct payments could bring a new dawn in farm programs this year. At the same time, lawmakers and the Obama administration are g...

Ag and Environment Outlook
OMAHA (DTN) -- While 2011 may be the year agriculture interests went after EPA on a number of fronts, 2012 could be remembered for precedent-setting environmental l...

Do Unto Others
By Claire Vath Progressive Farmer Assistant Editor Stories of a tenuous relationship between a landowner and tenant make good local fodder, but you won't get one of t...

Trigger & Bullet at the 2012 NCBA Convention this February
Trigger & Bullet will be making an appearance at the NCBA Convention February, 1 through February 3, 2012 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.  Get your photo...

Lower River Levels Could Sink Ag Trade
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Mississippi River basin's bone-dry winter is bad news for exporters at the Gulf: River levels are dropping and once again the Army Corps of Engineers' sh...

Land Outlook
CHICAGO (DTN) -- The land market is going nuts, contends agricultural economist Terry Kastens, a retired Kansas State University professor who now is a manager on his family's...

USDA Report: Corn Stocks Still Tight
We have another round of January crop reports under our belt, and once again the market was caught flat-footed by the numbers USDA rolled out. Corn prices logged a limit move fol...

Brazil Soy, Corn Forecast Cut
SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- Agroconsult, one of Brazil's leading farm consultants, slashed its 2011/12 corn forecast Thursday by nearly four million metric tons (mmt) and cut its s...

Seed Germination Suffers
AUSTIN, Texas (DTN) -- Possible hybrid seed corn shortages are grabbing headlines, but the same early wet/late dry weather in 2011 that reduced seed corn production also has af...