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19 Aug 2019
By Matt WildeDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor Images captured 5,000 feet above Greg Armes' cotton fields are more than just pretty pictures. The high-resolution photos taken by Ceres Imaging, based in Oakland, California, are intricate and colorful. The New Home, Texas, farmer often looks at them on his iPad or iPhone as he's spraying...
19 Aug 2019
By Todd Neeley DTN Staff Reporter and Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Has President Donald Trump turned a 180 on his publicly stated support for ethanol and the Renewable Fuel Standard? It's a question ethanol and agriculture industry officials are asking after reports surfaced this week that EPA's decision late last week to gran...
19 Aug 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst Not many minutes after 11 a.m. CDT Monday morning, my phone was ringing as I was scrambling to put together a webinar to explain why and how USDA just estimated a 13.9 billion bushel (bb) corn crop on the heels of the wettest planting period in recent history. Things were too frantic to answer the phone, but I later ...
16 Aug 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- At the American Coalition for Ethanol's annual conference in Omaha this week, the group's CEO, Brian Jennings, urged an industry on the ropes to continue to look to the future and to not stand on the sideline while the EPA continues to grant small-refinery waivers. Ethanol companies are losing money, ...
16 Aug 2019
By Katie Dehlinger DTN Farm Business Editor and By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Corn yields in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio could be 12% to 15% below USDA's forecasts from earlier this week, according to Gro Intelligence's latest yield estimates. The DTN/Progressive Farmer 2019 Digital Yield Tour, powered by Gro Int...