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af_stocker/iStock/Getty Images Plus GLOBAL VIEW: For the new Biden Administration, global trade issues range from working with China, dealing with the World Trade Organization and perhaps reengaging the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries. A closer look at how the incoming Biden Administration will approach agricultural trade differently. This is the second installment of a special multi-part series offering what we might see under the incoming President Joe Biden administration.  How incoming President Joe Biden handles trade will be very different from his prede...

OMAHA (DTN) — With President Donald Trump’s time in office coming to a close, U.S. farmers will remember a president who spoke to them and for them more often than any other president in modern history. Trump’s policies on issues such as trade, energy, the environment and immigration heavily influenced farm prices, leading at times to criticism of the president’s decisions. But the vast majority of farmers, who Trump often described as “our great, patriot farmers and ranchers,” supported him throughout his tenure. Trump spoke three straight years at the American Farm Bureau Federa...

2021 Southwest Economic Outlook: Southwest economists and specialists weigh in on the 2021 economic outlook.

Randy Krzmarzick (I completed this Wednesday morning. The events of that afternoon give everything a “before and after” quality, so we delayed running it. Pictures from the Capitol were the type we have seen of places far away or long ago, places where society has broken down. To see them here is beyond disturbing. Much will be written of that day. I wish I felt optimistic, but I don’t right now. There is no proof in history that a democracy such as ours is anything but fragile. The guard rails of an essential media, an independent judiciary, and basic standards of decency have all been...

AMY MAYER / HARVEST PUBLIC MEDIA FILE PHOTO After harsh and frequent criticism from animal rights activists and environmentalists, many farmers and people who work in agriculture launched an effort to tell their stories to the broader public. A decade on, this effort has worked through several themes. With a new president coming, ag messaging may change again. But let’s begin back in 2013 when, fresh off Barack Obama’s re-election, agriculture groups were hitting their storytelling stride. The United Nations had given them a convenient factoid: by 2050, the Food and Agriculture Organiza...