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28 Jul 2020
As harvest time approaches for the United States spring wheat and durum crops, domestic and international customers are anxious to get the latest crop information. Because the 2020 Wheat Quality Council's Annual Spring Wheat Tour will not be a "hands on" event this year due to COVID-19, many in the industry will miss the opportunity to see the crop...
27 Jul 2020
As I'm writing this article, we are still waiting for guidance on PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan forgiveness. Based on what is being discussed in Congress, there will be some big changes. Instead of writing something that will be out of date in a few weeks, I thought I'd write about a topic I've been seeing lately: debt forgiveness.If debt ...
27 Jul 2020
By Jerry Hagstrom DTN Political Correspondent and Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Hoeven, R-N.D., and Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., both told The Hagstrom Report the Senate Republican coronavirus aid package now in development contains $20 billion in additional aid for farmers."While th...
27 Jul 2020
I apologize to corn producers for rehashing painful topics in 2020, but it's important to set the stage when talking about corn prices. USDA's first estimate of U.S. ending corn stocks in 2020-21 was 3.32 billion bushels (bb), based on a 97.0-million-acre planting estimate that came from USDA's March survey of planting intentions.If true, May's end...
24 Jul 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today denied a petition to vacate the registration of Corteva Agriscience's Enlist Duo herbicide, a 2,4-D-choline and glyphosate premix designed for use over 2,4-D-tolerant Enlist crops.The court ruled that EPA only needed to fix one oversight with the Enlist Duo registration r...