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23 Dec 2020
Joined in both matrimony and by the farm, Matthew and Kayla Poe together tend the soil of their Southern farm, always pushing productivity, always searching for the best use of their resource -- be it 200-bushel corn, packaged fresh beef or even fall decorations. "Our strongest attribute is that we work as one unit. We are stronger as a couple," Ma...
22 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Just a week after the Food and Drug Administration approved genetically altered pigs for food and medical use, USDA announced Monday the department is soliciting feedback to take over authority for overseeing regulations for animals produced through genetic engineering. USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) alread...
22 Dec 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Pennsylvania isn't necessarily the first place that springs to mind when one thinks of sorghum fields, which are so well suited to the semi-arid regions of the Southern Great Plains. But the crop once again proved its impressive versatility this year, after sorghum grower Ella Johnston, of Fulton County, Pennsylvania, set a ...
22 Dec 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- In what is becoming a familiar cycle, a group of environmental and farm groups have filed a lawsuit challenging EPA's latest round of dicamba herbicide registrations. The lawsuit was filed by the same groups whose lawsuit against the 2018 dicamba registrations ended in a federal court vacating three dicamba registrations on ...
21 Dec 2020
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at John Deere's award it received for its ActiveVision camera technology on its new X Series combines, and Kinze Manufacturing expands distribution in 18 states. ** John Deere announced this week an award in the Robotics category of the 2021 CES Innovation Awards. The awards program, owned by ...