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16 May 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- For many years, advances in crop technology have focused on specific production traits like herbicide tolerance or insecticide production. Photosynthesis -- the driving force behind all plant life -- was long viewed as too vast and complex to be effectively altered by genetic engineering...
16 May 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS: -- Dig up entire seedlings to best diagnose pest and disease problems. -- If you find disease or feeding, check your seed treatment label to see what worked or didn't work. -- Check your seeding depth and uniformity. Record and make plans to fix issues in the future. ** ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) ...
15 May 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle keeps close tabs on what's happening with biofuels even though he's been out of the U.S. Senate more than a decade now. Daschle, who is working with the High Octane Low Carbon Alliance, told DTN in an interview last week he thinks the time is ri...
15 May 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst Above-average precipitation in the south and the Ohio River Valley have kept the Lower Mississippi River (LMR) at high water levels for an unprecedented period of over 60 days. Tom Russell, Russell Marine Group said that, "High water safety protocols have slowed barge traffic movements from St. Louis to New Or...
15 May 2018
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers continued to put the pedal to the metal last week, pushing planting progress ahead another 23 percentage points and nearly catching up to the five-year average pace, according to the USDA National Ag Statistics Service weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. NASS estimated that 62% of corn was planted as of ...