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9 Dec 2020
Monarch Tractor of Livermore, California, on Tuesday introduced what the technology manufacturer calls the world's first fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor integrated onto a single platform. "What makes Monarch Tractor unique is that you are answering the three big challenges farmers have," said Praveen Penmetsa, co-founder and CEO, Mon...
9 Dec 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- At least three states plan to implement more restrictive cutoffs for dicamba use in 2021, beyond the federal labels EPA issued for XtendiMax, Engenia and Tavium this fall. Those states -- Indiana, Illinois and Arkansas -- have fewer options to accomplish this after EPA announced that it is no longer permitting the use of 24(...
8 Dec 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- University of Missouri Extension weed scientist Mandy Bish unveiled the results of the group's latest research on new auxin herbicide technologies at the annual MU Crop Management Conference, held virtually Dec. 1-2. MU weed scientists, who led the charge on early investigations of dicamba volatility and temperature inversio...
8 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Leaders from several major farm organizations that had put together a white paper on agricultural issues before the election are talking about some of those challenges with the incoming Biden administration team. Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told DTN in an interview Friday he had talked multiple tim...
8 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Higher incomes and increased commodity prices have farmers feeling more confident about the present and their immediate future despite that, for many producers, the 2020 presidential election did not turn out the way they hoped. The latest DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agriculture Confidence Index is 145.9, up 52 points from August thou...