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11 Jul 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES, Iowa, (DTN) -- The uncertainty of the federal Renewable Fuels Standard and political fights with the petroleum industry are giving more weight to the need for major biofuel states to consider their own low-carbon fuel standards. After years of pushing for a federal low-carbon fuels standard, the Gove...
11 Jul 2019
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers in 12 flood-ravaged states will have an extra week -- until July 22 -- to report spring-seeded crops to USDA's Farm Service Agency, according to a news release from USDA. The new deadline applies to producers in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennes...
10 Jul 2019
Editor's Note: Each year the Kansas City Board of Trade (now part of the CME Group), the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers provide updates of the Kansas wheat harvest. Today's update is the eighth report of the 2019 harvest. Scattered storms continue to be a theme for #WheatHarvest...
10 Jul 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The Fourth of July is long gone, but there are still some colorful displays underway in many corn and soybean fields of the Midwest. The bright white or orange larvae of the soybean gall midge are tunneling through soybean stems in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota. And across t...
10 Jul 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Payouts from a $1.51 billion Syngenta settlement may arrive in farmers' mailboxes sometime in 2020, as attorneys in the case continue to battle a federal court on the allocation of fees. Farmers originally were expected to begin receiving payments during the second quarter of 2019. A federal judge i...