With planting underway or just around the corner, farms are making changes to help combat the spread of COVID-19. DTN experts offered suggestions and updates in a recent webinar.
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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Cash is king right now, and if your business is feeling the pinch of the coronavirus pandemic, it's worth talking to your lenders to see if they can help you weather these uncertain times.
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