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10 Sep 2019
By Todd Neeley DTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The farmer-owned CountryMark cooperative and fuel refinery is caught in the middle of the small-refinery exemption controversy. The company operates in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky -- most of its customers at more than 100 retail stations are farmers and rural communities that have ...
9 Sep 2019
By Pamela Smith DTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor Pat Sanstrom started scouting corn early this season. Like many farmers, he was forced to plant some fields into wetter-than-ideal conditions and later than preferred. "The best way to know what's coming next is to dig in and try to identify anything else that could further compromise s...
9 Sep 2019
By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Not so long ago, insecticide and fungicide use in soybeans was not very common. Even after soybean aphids invaded the Midwest, fewer than 10% of soybean acres received an insecticide or fungicide application most years before 2008. Now, neonicotinoid insecticides and fungicides coat so...
9 Sep 2019
By Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- One of the areas feeling an impact from fires across the Amazon rainforest is the headquarters for Cargill Inc., just outside Minneapolis. The agricultural giant -- the largest private company in the U.S. -- was already under constant criticism from a relatively new environmental group, Mighty ...
6 Sep 2019
By Todd Hultman DTN Lead Analyst As row crops slowly make their way toward harvest in 2019, it is fair to say the bullishness in corn prices has been deflated by USDA's 13.9 billion bushel (bb) corn crop estimate on Aug. 12. Even though there are still many unanswered questions about this late-planted crop, and no guarantee as to when or if crops w...