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19 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- Marty Matlock sees the efforts to address climate change, global population rise and agricultural sustainability as the need to further intensify food production on current cropland while better explaining the story of modern food production to consumers. Matlock, a professor of biological a...
19 Oct 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to move higher slowly, according to prices tracked by DTN for the second week of October 2018. For the fifth week in a row, all eight major fertilizers were higher compared to a month earlier. None of the eight, however, were up a significant amount. DAP had an average...
19 Oct 2018
By Bryce AndersonDTN Senior Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- The weather recordkeeping winter season, from December 2018 through February 2019, is about five weeks away. Ahead of winter, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is calling for above-normal temperatures over the northern and western U.S. -- including the Plains...
18 Oct 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture interests waiting to hear what's next from EPA on the regulatory front -- including a possible rule to allow year-round E15 -- need wait no longer. On Wednesday, the agency released its unified fall 2018 agenda. Included is EPA's plan to release a proposed E15 rule by February 2019 with th...
18 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- The Trump administration on Wednesday announced ambitious plans to negotiate separate trade agreements with Japan, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Coming off the completion of the new North American free-trade deal -- the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) -- the Office ...