There's more government money available for rural broadband internet, thanks to last year's $1.2 trillion infrastructure law. Now the challenge is to make sure it's spent where it's needed.
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- Production Blog by Pam Smith
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- An Urban's Rural View by Urban Lehner
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
At a university in Sichuan, students read "1984" and find ways around the government's internet firewall even as they study "Xi Jinping thought."
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Ruminations on the nation's deep divides and a lost virtue that could be restored.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The Federal Reserve Board doesn't want a recession, but by raising its benchmark interest rates an unexpected 0.75 it's choosing to emphasize fighting inflation even at the risk of causing one.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Despite a strong dollar, U.S. exports, including ag exports, have been robust. Now there are signs that the runup in the dollar may be ending.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The U.S. has convinced 13 Asian nations to join a conversation about "economic models." It's not pushing for a trade deal because there's no support in Congress for trade deals.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The U.S. has convinced 13 Asian nations to join a conversation about "economic models." It's not pushing for a trade deal because there's no support in Congress for trade deals.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Demand for labor is strong, but the labor force participation rate still hasn't returned to where it was before the pandemic. Should the boomers be blamed?
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
With its recent half-point increase, the Federal Reserve is accelerating its attack on inflation. But inflation hawks think it's not accelerating enough.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Though Japan is a U.S. ally and many years the fourth largest export market for American agriculture, the two countries diverge widely on an important international-economic issue.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The coronavirus will leave long-term economic, political and social consequences in its wake, and one of the possible consequences could transform rural America.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The Fed is getting serious about raising interest rates. Its critics think it's still behind the curve.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Sales of plant-based meat slowed in 2021. Cultured meat is coming, and a consulting firm thinks it will take market share from both conventional and plant-based meat.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Russia's invasion tightens the bind the Federal Reserve Board finds itself in as it contemplates beginning to raise interest rates.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
British food doesn't deserve the abuse hurled at it. The United Kingdom is actually a pretty good place to eat.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
In the years since Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush, conservation has become divisive -- or is it regulation that divides us?
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The Biden administration is preparing an Indo-Asian Economic Framework aimed at reasserting U.S. leadership in Asian economic diplomacy without stirring up the domestic political passions that killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
China's purchase of U.S. products fell short of what it agreed to in the phase-one trade deal two years ago. That puts the Biden administration in a bind.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
We've reached a turning point in the COVID-19 story, the beginning of the new normal.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
In 2016, Congress thought it was resolving the heated disputes over labeling food with genetically engineered ingredients. Fat chance.
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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