Headline News
RECENT NEWS
10 Aug 2018
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Proof that dicamba remains a complex and emotional topic was evident at a recent public meeting with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Last week, EPA officials and a handful of other agency representatives traveled to farm country to gather views on whether t...
10 Aug 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst With U.S. corn in dough stage and soybeans setting pods, USDA will reveal the findings of its first farm surveys of 2018 and post new yield estimates for row crops. Traders will also be interested in changes in the world wheat crop estimates after dry weather concerns increased over the past month. USDA will release its ...
10 Aug 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- EPA has been ordered to cancel chlorpyrifos registrations within 60 days, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco ruled on Thursday the agency was not justified in maintaining the insecticide's registration "in the face of scientific evidence that its residue on food cau...
9 Aug 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Perhaps circling the drain even faster than the likes of black rhinos, whooping cranes and snow leopards, small-town newspapers represent a particularly sad and endangered form of business. Some remain securely on life-support thanks to legal notices required by small-county seats. Yet virtually none of this ...
9 Aug 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Ag leaders in the Trump administration may have thought the announcement a couple of weeks ago of a $12 billion aid package might quell some farmer voices of unrest, but farmers remain split over the damage done by tariffs that have reduced agricultural trade. Pushing back on the White House...