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30 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A new final rule issued on Thursday by the EPA makes a number of changes to application exclusion zones when it comes to applying pesticides, designed to protect agriculture workers from exposure in the field. Most notably, AEZ requirements in the worker protection safety rule are designed to keep agriculture workers away from areas ...
30 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Trump administration on Thursday continued with a string of deregulatory decisions over the past week as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would "delist" gray wolfs from the Endangered Species Act, turning authority over to states to manage gray wolf populations. With the presidential election next Tuesday, federal ...
30 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA released three new dicamba over-the-top herbicide labels on Tuesday: XtendiMax (Bayer), Engenia (BASF) and Tavium (Syngenta). (FeXapan -- Corteva Agriscience's marketed version of XtendiMax -- is not yet registered for use, but Corteva confirmed to DTN that the company will be seeking a federal registration of the produc...
29 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- While new coronavirus cases are now higher than ever in the U.S., President Donald Trump on the campaign trail Tuesday maintained the country had turned a corner in the pandemic and the real risk facing the country is what Democratic rival Joe Biden would do to the suburbs. Trump capped off a day of rallies with an evening event in O...
29 Oct 2020
Last year at this time, cattlemen were looking at a completely different feeder cattle market. Following the packing plant fire in Holcomb, Kansas, the fall feeder-cattle run was slow to start as cattle prices crumbled. But as we moved into October, the cattle market had ample support. By the middle of October 2019, the live cattle market had a suc...