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29 Jan 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor My first experience reporting on a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) expansion in a rural community was more than 25 years ago in Illinois as a business reporter for a small daily paper. I reported on the same type of meetings as a county government reporter in Missouri and later as a regional reporte...
28 Jan 2020
By Matthew WildeDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor AMES, IOWA (DTN) -- Jason Webster isn't about to forget the rough-and-tumble 2019 crop season, but not for the reasons you think. Instead, the agronomist and head of Precision Planting's Technology Institute prefers to apply the experiences to improve production practices. "It was a cha...
28 Jan 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The DTN national average corn basis started to climb above the five-year average beginning in March. By the end of May, the basis was beginning to climb towards the five-year maximum average basis, surpassing that mark on July 3, and has not looked back since. I wrote about the strong corn basis on July 8, 201...
28 Jan 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Optimism has fallen out of the commodity and stock markets as the number of infections rise from the coronavirus in China, which has spread to the U.S., Canada and now at least 13 other countries. As of Monday, Chinese officials had confirmed at least 2,800 cases of the virus with at least 82 dea...
27 Jan 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal court ruled EPA didn't have the authority to issue small-refinery exemption extensions to three companies that were not granted waivers originally. The ruling could affect how the agency implements the program. In a ruling handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denv...