News headlines said the FDA allowed plant-based beverages to be called milk. That's true. But what the agency required of those beverages is more important.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Could Vietnam become an even bigger market for U.S. agricultural products?
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Legislators are debating whether to ban Chinese investments in U.S. agriculture or subject them to greater scrutiny.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by 0.25% on Feb. 1. At previous meetings the increases had been 0.75% and 0.5%. But there are likely more rate hikes ahead.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Do both yourself and your heirs a favor. Write a brief, (or lengthy, if you prefer) autobiography -- or at least your own obituary.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
To maintain the current level of ag exports, much less expand them, Uncle Sam must do more than just basic blocking and tackling.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Americans will probably always be polarized, but they can still deal with each other as people rather than ideological stereotypes.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The Federal Reserve is warning interest rates will go higher and stay higher longer. Financial markets aren't convinced.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
In a war with China over Taiwan, war games suggest the U.S. could run out of munitions in a week.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
A new book makes a compelling case for preserving the world's big five megaforests and 2,000 intact forest landscapes.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Americans don't wait for the government to do everything. We roll up our sleeves and do some of it ourselves. Be thankful for that.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Finding reason for hope in two election-week events that some might view less sanguinely.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's success in knocking an asteroid off course is, as NASA's director says, "a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity."
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
China's president professes a fondness for Iowa but U.S.-China relations have spiraled downward on his watch nonetheless. With relations getting chillier, the U.S. and China need a crisis-management mechanism.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Farmers are always free not to use conservation easements, but there's no reason to demonize them.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
U.S. companies sell a lot of semiconductors but increasingly make them overseas. The government is spending big bucks to encourage more domestic production.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The techno-optimists have been right (and the Malthusians wrong) about agriculture's ability to keep up with population growth, but a new book challenges techno-optimism on the decarbonization front.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
To avoid having to raise interest rates into the stratosphere in the long run, as the Federal Reserve did in the early 1980s, today's Fed looks likely to continue to impose unusually large increases in the short run.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The U.S. has a Labor Day, not a May Day, even though the May Day in many other countries commemorates an 1886 incident in Chicago, the Haymarket Riot.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Speculators have wound down their collective long position in ag futures. The strong dollar was one of the reasons.
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Markets
- Market Matters Blog by DTN Staff
- Technically Speaking by DTN Staff
- Sort & Cull by DTN Staff
- Fundamentally Speaking by Joel Karlin
- Canada Markets by Cliff Jamieson
News
- Production Blog by Pam Smith
- Ethanol Blog by DTN Staff
- Ag Policy Blog by Chris Clayton
- South America Calling by DTN Staff
- An Urban's Rural View by Urban Lehner
- MachineryLink by Dan Miller
- Editors' Notebook by Greg D.Horstmeier