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22 Oct 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- More than 50 agriculture groups wrote to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to highlight disruptive factors facing the U.S. agricultural and food supply chain, ranging from labor and infrastructure needs to calling on USDA not to idle farm ground. The Department of Transportation had requested information to prepare a report for...
22 Oct 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A group of university scientists and public health researchers are searching for funding to launch long-term human health and environmental monitoring studies in Mead, Nebraska, after an ethanol plant leaked pesticide-laced contaminants into the environment for several years. The source of the pollution were corn seeds treat...
21 Oct 2021
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (DTN) -- Calling the Cattle Contract Library Act of 2021 "no silver bullet," but "consensus-based," Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., told the House Agriculture Committee the legislation is necessary for price discovery in today's cattle industry. The House Agriculture Committee on Thursday advanced a bill on a voice vote to create the n...
21 Oct 2021
Last year's grain marketing year, which encompasses the soybean growing season in 2020-21 and the double-cropped (safrinha) corn growing season in 2021, was characterized by the influence of a La Nina pattern. We at DTN have documented this almost continuously throughout the past year. South American producers, of course, lived through the immense ...
21 Oct 2021
CHARLES CITY, Va. (DTN) -- People ask this Charles City, Virginia, farmer the question the way they'd ask someone else how their day was going, a default icebreaker. "Everyone comes up and asks, 'You gonna break the record?'" said David Hula, the reigning king of corn. He's a mix of meticulous and curious as a farmer, attuned to every detail and wi...