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2 Mar 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- For the fourth time in five years, farmers and applicators face a new set of requirements to spray dicamba over the top of dicamba-tolerant crops. The stakes for getting it right remain high. Parts of the Midwest and South have seen many consecutive years of off-target dicamba injury to a broad array of crops and plants. Thi...
1 Mar 2021
At a time when corn is trading well above $5 per bushel and soybeans are over $14 per bushel, it sounds odd to be talking about leveling the playing field with China, but don't let the high prices fool you. China presents a new set of long-term challenges for U.S. agriculture that this country has never faced. So far, those issues are not being add...
1 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Its very business would be threatened if it is unable to receive exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standard, a farmer-owned cooperative told the Supreme Court in a brief filed on Friday in an upcoming case that could determine the fate of the small-refinery exemption program. CountryMark operates in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio...
1 Mar 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- For the fourth time in five years, farmers and applicators face a new set of requirements to spray dicamba over the top of dicamba-tolerant crops. The stakes for getting it right remain high. Parts of the Midwest and South have seen many consecutive years of off-target dicamba injury to a broad array of crops and plants. Thi...
26 Feb 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Spring crop insurance guarantees for corn and soybeans will be $4.58 and $11.87 per bushel, respectively, increases of $0.70 and $2.70 from last year. For corn, it's the highest spring guarantee since 2014; it's the highest since 2013 for soybeans. The guarantees are an integral part of revenue protection crop insurance ...