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16 Oct 2020
On a cold, snowy November day last year, Steve Wallpe watched one of Rogo Ag's SmartCore autonomous robots scoot around his fields taking and bagging soil samples. Two things instantly came to mind, recalls the Fowler, Indiana, farmer. He's glad it wasn't him pulling cores while shivering, and a robot with plenty of power to bore into hard soil at ...
15 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska has stayed proceedings in a lawsuit alleging ethanol market manipulation by Archer Daniels Midland, pending a motion to change venue in the case. Omaha-based Green Plains Inc. filed a class-action lawsuit in the court in July alleging ADM conducted a scheme to illegally depress the...
15 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The hectic harvest season may not seem like a time for personal reflection, but Ryan Jenkins will tell you he does his best pondering seated behind the steering wheel of a cotton or peanut picker. Reid Thompson finds the combine to be a good thinking spot too. Perhaps it is that long view across the landscape afforded from th...
15 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- It's been a busy day in federal courts for JBS SA, its Brazilian owners and its poultry subsidiary, Pilgrim's Pride, as the meatpacking conglomerate was ordered to pay a combined $393 million in fines in two separate federal court cases. In the first case, out of the U.S. District Court for Eastern New York, in Brooklyn, J&F Investim...
14 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Rattan Lal, a soil scientist from Ohio State University and the 2020 Word Food Prize laureate, makes his case that agriculture globally must take better care of its most valuable resource to not only produce more, healthier food in the future, but also help remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Lal spoke in a livestreamed spee...