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26 Jun 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Arguing against regulations classifying livestock as drugs, the National Pork Producers Council wants the Food and Drug Administration to yield regulatory oversight to USDA for gene-edited animals raised for food. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue also told farmers over the weekend he would lob...
26 Jun 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- June is nearing an end, but you wouldn't know it from looking at many corn and soybean fields this year. "It's looking great -- if it was the first of May," Missouri farmer Bob Birdsell said of his corn crop, which he finished planting June 14, unthinkably late in most years. But at lea...
25 Jun 2019
By Loren LindlerDTN News Intern OMAHA (DTN) -- When recent flooding hit Catoosa, Oklahoma, a group of cowboy buddies joined together to help the people of their small town, especially farmers, any way that they could. Since March, heavy rains and flooding have hit a number of states, including: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, ...
25 Jun 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst Two months ago, I wrote a story titled "Lack of 2019 Spring Wheat Planting: Time to Push the Panic Button Yet?" Click this link to read it: https://www.dtnpf.com/… I told farmers and elevator managers who contributed to that story, and a few others, that I would check back with them in May. That didn't happen...
25 Jun 2019
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor This article was originally posted at 3:02 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 24. It was last updated at 3:41 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 24. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Ninety-six percent of the corn that farmers intend to plant this year -- on those acres that were still farmable following relentless rains and flooding this spring -...