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7 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A Chinese national and former employee of Monsanto Co. and The Climate Corp. pleaded guilty Thursday to committing economic espionage, according to the Department of Justice, after he was caught stealing trade secrets from Monsanto to benefit the People's Republic of China. Xiang Haitao, 44, a former researcher for both compa...
7 Jan 2022
STARKVILLE, Miss. (DTN) -- Corn, soybean, wheat and cotton prices are expected to remain high in 2022 thanks to good demand, moderate supplies and weather-related production fears. Despite skyrocketing input costs -- namely fertilizer -- good profit potential exists for commodities during the current marketing year and into the next, according to W...
7 Jan 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A group of environmental organizations is asking a federal court to lift a stay and expedite their lawsuit demanding EPA vacate its 2020 dicamba registrations of Engenia, Tavium and XtendiMax. The group, led by the Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity, filed a motion in the U.S. District Court of Arizon...
6 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Former Washington state rancher Cody Allen Easterday is scheduled to be sentenced on June 13, after a federal judge on Thursday granted a third continuance in a complex case that includes a guilty plea on wire fraud charges in a so-called ghost-cattle scheme and an ongoing massive bankruptcy case. Easterday, who is also invol...
6 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers who apply nitrogen with split applications for non-irrigated corn across parts of the Corn Belt will be eligible to buy a supplemental coverage for their crop insurance under a new USDA program. The policy will pay farmers for projected yield losses when they cannot get into the field for that second nitrogen application duri...