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25 May 2021
Scott Wallis didn't get narrow-minded overnight. The Princeton, Indiana, farmer studied the idea of moving to 20-inch rows for three years before making the switch in both corn and soybeans. Narrow-row beans were a no-brainer. It was corn that required the numbers crunching. While Wallis was convinced reducing row width would result in a more effic...
24 May 2021
This article was originally posted at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 24. It was last updated at 4:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 24. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- With three-quarters of the crop seeded by the end of last week, this year's U.S. soybean planting pace remains the fastest it has been in over 12 years, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report ...
24 May 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Senior EPA officials deliberately mishandled the agency's 2018 registration decision for three dicamba herbicides -- FeXapan, XtendiMax, and Engenia -- according to the agency's Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG, a federal agency tasked with reviewing EPA decisions and policy for abuse and errors, issued a scathing...
24 May 2021
WASHINGTON, (DTN) -- In what looks like a bipartisan breakthrough in the infrastructure debate, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday will mark up a bill that would increase funding by at least one-third over the next five years. Key leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Saturday released a biparti...
21 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Friday announced it will start paying off up to $4 billion in debt for minority farmers with notices going out to farmers about their payment relief. USDA officials started the process of debt relief for just under 16,000 borrowers by sending them notices that USDA will be making payments on Farm Service Agency direct loans. ...