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19 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers waiting to hear about aid programs from USDA likely will have to wait until April for the Biden administration to complete reviews and release funds. The Biden administration is still reviewing the last farm aid programs initiated by the Trump administration, as well as developing the programs that will come from two separate...
19 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture took another swing at legalizing farmworkers and overhauling the H-2A guestworker program with the House again passing the Farm Workforce Modernization Act in bipartisan fashion to see if the Senate will take up immigration legislation during this Congress. The House also voted earlier Thursday to provide a pathway to cit...
19 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- If drought predictions issued March 18 verify, the record-setting rain and snow event across the western and southern Plains during the March 12-14 weekend may not have a long shelf life. Almost the entire Plains region of the United States and a sizeable portion of the northwestern Midwest -- approximately west of Interstate 35 -- a...
18 Mar 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Add tank additives to the list of requirements necessary when spraying dicamba in Xtend-tolerant crops this year. EPA labels now require the use of an approved volatility reduction agent, often called a VRA, for applications of Engenia, Tavium and XtendiMax. "This is not an optional inclusion," said BASF Technical Marketing M...
18 Mar 2021
ROCKVILLE, MD. (DTN) -- After a long wait, sorghum growers will have three herbicide-tolerant hybrid options coming onto the market for the 2021 season. All three are non-GM (genetically modified) technology. Two of the sorghum lines -- igrowth hybrids from Advanta and Inzen hybrids from Corteva -- can tolerate applications of certain labeled Group...