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7 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- For more than a decade, Minor County, South Dakota, farmer Arlen Foster has fought a USDA wetland determination that a puddle in the middle of one of his fields is a wetland. The agency refused to reconsider when Foster presented new evidence in 2020 that may have proven to the contrary. The third-generation farmer is once ag...
7 May 2021
There are many good reasons Chad Ratermann says he'll buy farmland, but the one that's always in the back of his mind has nothing to do with soil quality or field location. He's thinking about how to best give the family's next generation a leg up. "I started thinking about that before I even had kids," says the dad of two. "I always wanted to make...
6 May 2021
By DTN Staff Editor's Note: This story has been updated. The original appeared April 30. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Agricultural corn seed giants started working on a containment strategy as Nebraska environmental regulators began taking stock of the pesticide and fungicide contamination at an ethanol plant that processed treated seeds almost exclusively. S...
6 May 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Growers with soybean injury and yield loss from dicamba in the past six years have only three more weeks to file a claim with the Dicamba Soybean Grower Settlement. The deadline to file claims is May 28, 2021. The settlement is from Monsanto (a legal entity now owned by Bayer), which agreed to make $400 million available to ...
6 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- After speculation and concerns over President Joe Biden's goal to conserve 30% of U.S. land and waters by 2030, the White House on Thursday released a broad outline to encourage but not require greater conservation efforts across the country. The Biden administration rolled out 30x30 as "America the Beautiful" to expand conservation ...