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30 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 3:05 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 29. It was last updated at 3:55 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 29.**OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and soybean conditions rose slightly last week and remain among the highest of the past decade, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Monday.NASS estimated that 73% of the corn crop was...
29 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 8:35 p.m. CDT on Thursday, June 25. It was last updated at 11:17 a.m. CDT on Friday, June 26.**ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Late on Thursday, June 25, a panel of judges on the Ninth Circuit denied a motion by BASF to stay and recall their June 3 mandate vacating three dicamba registrations, including BASF's Engenia ...
29 Jun 2020
Succession planning in the family business often focuses on the operational leader -- the person directing outside activities or making decisions about logistics, labor, planting or harvesting. The theory is that when something happens to the leader, without an immediate takeover by a competent replacement, the business will struggle with indecisio...
29 Jun 2020
The Senate Agriculture Committee on June 24 advanced a bill, via a voice vote, reauthorizing the U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act (USGSRA) for another five years. The bill was widely supported by agricultural groups and exporters who depend on the reauthorization to provide structure for the entire grain inspection system. The existing auth...
29 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- As June starts to melt into July, summer insects' favorite buffets are in season: fields of growing crops.Soybean fields appear to be at the top of the menu this month, with a growing number of agronomists and farmers reporting sightings of soybean gall midge, thistle caterpillars and Japanese beetles in soybean fields in th...