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17 Jun 2020
These are strange times. Back in January, many of our agribusiness subindustries were poised to have a good year. We reached a trade agreement with China. Milk and cattle prices were strong. There was optimism that agribusiness was slowly climbing out of its long recession.Fast-forward four months. Commodity prices are depressed. Ethanol plants are...
17 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Corn and soybean farmers should be alert for rust diseases this year as southern corn rust and soybean rust made historically early arrivals in the Southeast and Gulf states this summer.Aided by an extremely mild winter and recent tropical storm systems, the two rust diseases are set to thrive in the southern states and perh...
17 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA defended its decision to allow farmers to continue to use three vacated dicamba herbicides -- XtendiMax, FeXapan and Engenia -- and asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out a motion filed to hold the federal agency in contempt.That emergency motion was filed last week by a group of farm and environmental org...
16 Jun 2020
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The seats being vacated by House Agriculture Committee ranking member Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and GOP committee members Ted Yoho of Florida, Roger Marshall of Kansas and Ralph Abraham of Louisiana are ranked "Solid Republican" in the 2020 elections, but the statewide House seat in Montana being vacated by Republican Rep. Greg ...
16 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal judge Friday ruled North Carolina's so-called "ag-gag" law is unconstitutional, in yet another loss for laws across the country designed to prevent animal-rights groups from conducting undercover investigations of livestock operations.A number of animal-rights groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, o...