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21 Sep 2021
You'll never see their faces, but high-tech criminals lurk far beyond the farmgate. Their intent is to cause chaos and financial loss for America's farmers and ranchers. The risk has only heightened as agriculture becomes increasingly digitally interconnected with the country's food supply and transportation networks. Agriculture was reminded of th...
20 Sep 2021
This article was originally posted at 3:08 p.m. CDT on Monday, Sept. 20. It was last updated at 3:49 p.m. CDT on Monday, Sept. 20. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- While corn and soybeans are reaching maturity slightly ahead of normal this year, harvest of both crops so far is progressing at a close-to-average pace, USDA NASS' said in its weekly national Crop Pro...
20 Sep 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- USDA suspended the movement of all live swine, swine germplasm, swine products and swine byproducts from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to the mainland U.S. in an effort to prevent the spread of African swine fever. In a news release at the end of last week, USDA said it issued the federal order as part of establishi...
20 Sep 2021
By DTN Staff National yield estimates are the epitome of averages, especially in a year like this one with devasting drought in one region of the Corn Belt and blissful bounty in others. One number does not tell a universal story. DTN's Digital Yield Tour, powered by Gro Intelligence's yield models, profiled growing conditions in 10 states througho...
17 Sep 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is in Florence, Italy, on a recruiting mission to create a "coalition for productivity growth" -- a group of agricultural export countries to stress the role of science at the United Nations Food Systems Summit next week in New York. While farmers are ramping up harvest and football season, U.S. ag l...