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14 Apr 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst Spring flooding has become an obstacle for barge traffic reaching the Mississippi River in St. Paul. While the river there did fall below minor flood stage late last week, there are still high water issues east of downtown on the Minnesota River at Savage. The Minnesota River is a tributary of the Mississippi ...
14 Apr 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Enlist crop acreage is set to expand significantly in 2020, thanks to a boost from new volumes of Enlist E3 soybeans on the landscape. Corteva Agriscience, which owns the technology, announced in a January press release that it expects E3 soybeans alone to reach 20% of the U.S. soybean m...
14 Apr 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- An updated economic analysis looking at the impact of COVID-19 projects crop farmers to see $11.85 billion in lower revenue in 2020 and all livestock sectors combined to see a $20.24 billion drop in receipts for the year. The early partial analysis by the University of Missouri's Food & A...
13 Apr 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- Smithfield Foods announced Sunday the company was closing its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, facility indefinitely after state officials reported the plant accounted for nearly 40% of all COVID-19 cases in the state and South Dakota's governor on Saturday demanded the plant close for at least...
13 Apr 2020
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Glen Newcomer's accident in 2015 couldn't have come at a more inconvenient time. It was the night before his annual customer appreciation dinner and soybean harvest was just about to get rolling. Thanks to a plan his wife, son and advisory board worked out ahead of time, everyo...