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20 Sep 2018
By Scott Williams DTN Entomologist It may feel like only yesterday that you were doing spring cleaning, but the amber waves of grain outside my window tell me how much time has passed. Hopefully, all the seeds you've sown have grown into mature crops, and that harvest is only weeks away. Now is the perfect time to talk about fall cleaning and to ...
20 Sep 2018
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Soybean harvest is closing in, and that means busy times on the farms of Kyle Krier and Genny Haun. Krier, who farms in central Kansas, is putting up the latest hay and grass cuttings and visiting crop insurance customers when he can. "We're just kind of biding our time right ...
20 Sep 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Each fall, when Lucy convinces Charlie Brown that he is supporting the great Thanksgiving tradition of kicking the football, we plead with him not to do it. Of course, Lucy wins out and Chuck ends up on his back, betrayed again by Lucy's dirty trick of pulling the ball away. No matter how many times Charlie tries and fail...
19 Sep 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Add Iowa to the list of now 28 states not under the jurisdiction of the 2015 waters of the United States rule thanks to a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota on Tuesday. Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds asked the court for the injunction after a series of court rulings ...
19 Sep 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Omaha-based Green Plains Inc. announced plans earlier this year to sell four to six ethanol plants as part of a plan to make the business more profitable. In response to a report by Reuters on Monday that the company had shut down plants, Green Plains CEO Todd Becker told DTN on Tuesday his company ha...