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6 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The Arkansas attorney general is appealing the surprise decision by a judge to allow six Arkansas farmers to use dicamba on cotton and soybeans during the 2018 growing season. As part of the appeal, the state will ask the court to halt the farmers' in-season access to dicamba until the ap...
5 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The cover crop fan club is bigger than you might realize. Some of the movement's most ardent supporters are less than an inch long and boast six legs. Insects love cover crops for the food and shelter they provide in what used to be barren, plowed fields, University of Nebraska Crop Pro...
5 Apr 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is pressing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt for answers as to why the agency granted a Renewable Fuel Standard waiver to a large refiner. Reuters reported Tuesday that Andeavor, one of the country's largest refiners, received an RFS o...
5 Apr 2018
By Lin Tan DTN China Correspondent and Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor BEIJING, China, and CHICAGO (DTN) -- Alan Kemper, a farmer from Lafayette, Indiana, and former president of both the American Soybean Association and National Corn Growers Association, woke up early Wednesday to see soybeans down 40 cents. He said he thinks it could get wors...
4 Apr 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- With the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard in question, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may be opening another avenue to expand the role of ethanol in the nation's fuel supply. The EPA on Monday announced it will begin a rewrite of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards for li...