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14 Oct 2020
Jim Ruen, Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor John Verell III is a corn-yield champion, but pushing seeding rates is not part of his winning strategy on his farm, near Jackson, Tennessee. In 2019, a yield of 320.8 bushels per acre (bpa) earned him first place in Tennessee for no-till, nonirrigated corn in the National Corn Growers Association Na...
14 Oct 2020
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- The world will lose about 250 million crop production acres by 2050, according to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The possibility of losing the equivalent of roughly two-thirds of the cultivated land in the United States is alarming, said Jerry Hatfield. But the director of the U.S. ...
13 Oct 2020
On Oct. 3, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) St. Paul District began to lower the Mississippi River water level immediately below St. Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The purpose of drawing down the river is to allow for inspection of infrastructure that is normally underwater. According to USACE, engineers are planning to c...
13 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- California rancher Megan Brown moved home to work on her parents' cattle ranch. The pay is low, which helps to keep the ranch in her family, and Brown started raising heritage hogs to boost her income. Health insurance is tricky, but Brown qualifies for Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program. She's frustrated because Medi-Cal hasn't...
13 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- After several years of low corn rootworm populations, the "billion-dollar bug" is catching eyes again in the Corn Belt. Populations of both western and northern corn rootworm are rebounding after a mild winter and favorable egg hatch conditions this year, and they're bringing some bad habits along: growing Bt resistance. Cor...