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25 Sep 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- This bi-monthly column condenses the latest news in the field of crop technology, research and products. BATS PROTECT CORN A former graduate student at Southern Illinois University has found bats play a significant role in protecting corn by feasting on some its most troublesome insect pests. Josiah M...
25 Sep 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter Dried distillers grains prices fell to their lowest point since December 2014 due to lackluster demand from both domestic and export markets. The DTN weekly DDG spot price average fell another $6 in the past two weeks, from $128 on Sept. 11 to $122 this week. This is the lowest point the average has reached in n...
24 Sep 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A bipartisan group of 42 senators wrote President Barack Obama on Thursday urging him to make biotechnology a priority when talking to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is expected to arrive in Washington on Friday. The letter went out as cabinet-level officials and business organizations from bo...
17 Sep 2015
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The Senate Agriculture Committee passed a package of bills on Thursday that reauthorizes and updates laws on grain inspections, mandatory livestock price reporting and the National Forest Foundation. Several agriculture groups commended the passage, noting that it ensures grain inspections at export ...
17 Sep 2015
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor WARRENSBURG, Ill. (DTN) -- Dave Shenaut has learned never to underestimate the western corn rootworm (WCR). The early rains that plagued most of the Midwest this summer should have washed away most of the pests, but the Monsanto agronomist is still finding adult beetles this fall. "I've see...