It's hard to maintain a positive outlook with the trade war, tough growing season, thin profit margins, etc., but it's worth the effort. Research shows positive leadership is a competitive...
Katie Dehlinger
Farm Business Editor
Katie Dehlinger grew up near the Illinois-Wisconsin border in Rockton, Ill., and graduated from the University of Missouri in 2009 with a bachelor's of journalism in news/editorial writing and minors in history and sociology.
She's filled a number of roles at DTN, including nearly five years as the Markets Editor, where she covered commodities markets and marketing strategies in addition to USDA report lockups. She spent several years as the Executive Producer for RFDTV's daily news programs, Market Day Report and the Rural Evening News. She's now back at DTN, this time as the Farm Business Editor, where her reporting focuses on tax and estate planning, farmland values, health care and other issues that affect farmers' bottom lines.
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Two machine-learning models that incorporate large amounts of data produce two very different corn yield estimates, and it's a good reminder that in all crop estimates, the recipe is in the...
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Ag Economy Finds New Plateau
After half a decade of watching and waiting for a 1980s-like crash, a leading economist says it's time to stop making comparisons to farming's worst economic crisis and start looking at the resemblance to the long plateau of the...
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Ag Economy Finds New Plateau
After half a decade of watching and waiting for a 1980s-like crash, a leading economist says it's time to stop making comparisons to farming's worst economic crisis and start looking at the resemblance to the long plateau of the...
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Liquidity Concerns Grow
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Land's Linchpin - 2
Experts say the Market Facilitation Program injected much-needed cash into the ag economy. While that has anecdotally helped prop up the land market, it may have just delayed a downturn, especially if there's no change in the...
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Broadband Business Blues
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The Recipe is in the Soup
Two machine-learning models that incorporate large amounts of data produce two very different corn yield estimates, and it's a good reminder that in all crop estimates, the recipe is in the soup.
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PLC Gains Popularity
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No More Newspapers for H-2A
The final rule modernizes recruitment requirements for farmers interested in hiring foreign agriculture workers under the H-2A visa process, allowing them to post jobs online instead of publishing them in a newspaper.