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7 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA asked for input and received a mixed response to a proposal to require radio frequency identification, or RFID tags, to be the official tag for interstate movement of cattle, following the end of a 90-day public comment period on Monday by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The now-closed comment period asked for in...
7 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The pork industry in the United States is getting ready to release a volunteer "contract tracing" program for hogs that the industry hopes would stave off an export and supply crisis should a viral disease for swine show up in the U.S. As the global pork industry watches Germany from afar, the U.S. Pork Checkoff has focused attention...
6 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Soybean growers who endured hot, dry growing conditions this summer have another reason to be steamed. It seems soybean cyst nematode (SCN) likes that droughty weather pattern just fine. "We have data verifying that SCN is worse in hot, dry years," said Iowa State University Nematologist Greg Tylka. "It's not just because pla...
6 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA asked for input and received a mixed response to a proposal to require radio frequency identification, or RFID tags, to be the official tag for interstate movement of cattle, following the end of a 90-day public comment period on Monday by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The now-closed comment period asked for in...
6 Oct 2020
As fall harvest ramps up, the Mississippi River is facing low levels and in the Lower Mississippi River (LMR), barges face draft restrictions and tow size restrictions. The Lock and Dam system on the Mississippi River keeps a 9-foot deep channel with barge drafts at 9 feet, but once barges head south from St. Louis, drafts can increase to 12 feet. ...