Headline News
RECENT NEWS
30 Apr 2018
By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A mushroom that doesn't brown. White flour with as much fiber as whole-wheat flour. Corn that can fend off northern corn leaf blight. Soybeans that can tolerate salty soils and drought. These products and dozens more are quietly making their way from laboratories to fields, bypassing the...
27 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Ah, planting season -- that magical time of year when spray rigs and tractors pulling planters or tillage equipment must share the road with over-caffeinated commuters, soccer moms and truck drivers. The season is ripe for traffic accidents, so we visited with two farmers, Stephen Elli...
27 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The roll-out of new dicamba herbicides last year came with a complex new vocabulary. Terms like "volatility" and "inversion" swirled around and confused many. Yet at least one term -- spray particle drift -- was familiar to farmers, easy to understand and, most important, mostly under an...
27 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A group of Arkansas farmers had little more than a week of access to dicamba before the state Supreme Court intervened on Wednesday, April 25. Nearly 200 farmers had gained temporary access to new dicamba herbicides after three judges in Clay, Mississippi and Phillips counties issued tem...
26 Apr 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Fertilizer Columnist OMAHA (DTN) -- According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the third week of April 2018, prices continue to be mostly on the higher side. However, there are signs that perhaps this is finally changing. For the first time in several months, multiple fertilizers were actually lower in price compared...