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3 Feb 2020
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter ATLANTIC, Iowa (DTN) -- A cow having difficulty calving (dystocia) is a stressful time for everyone involved. Proper management, however, at this time can make an often tough situation much less difficult. This was the message from two presenters at the Southwest Iowa Cow-Calf Short Course held in Atlantic, Iowa, on ...
3 Feb 2020
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is taking another stab at establishing position limits in commodity markets, its fourth such attempt since Congress passed the requirement as part of 2010's financial reform legislation. CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert, a Republican, said t...
31 Jan 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The next decade will bring some novel cotton technology to U.S. farmers. We rounded up four new cotton traits in the pipeline -- three winding their way toward commercialization and one ready to hit fields in 2020. They include a new Bt cotton trait targeting tarnished plant bug and th...
31 Jan 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA released proposed interim registration decisions for several neonicotinoid chemicals on Thursday, Jan. 30. Three of them, clothianidin (such as Poncho from Bayer), imidacloprid (such as Gaucho from Bayer), and thiamethoxam (such as Cruiser from Syngenta), are commonly used as seed tre...
31 Jan 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Though the number of farms filing Chapter 12 bankruptcy increased in 2019 from the previous year, an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis found the number of filings in the fourth quarter fell from the previous two quarters. The agriculture economy is coming off five years of falling commodity pri...