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15 Mar 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- If you have a hankering for a sci-fi horror flick this summer, skip the theater and head straight to your soybean field. There, tiny parasitic wasps called Aphelinus certus will likely be flitting through your field, piercing soybean aphids with their stingers and inserting their eggs in...
14 Mar 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA has officially ended a rule on organic livestock and poultry practices that the Obama administration sought to implement at the tail end of the administration's tenure last year. The Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) rule would have required a certain amount of space -- both ind...
14 Mar 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Justin Knopf's farm in central Kansas went 120 days without a drop of moisture this winter. Now his winter wheat crop is waking up, looking for water, and finding little to none. "The Southern Plains drought is intense," said DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist Bryce Anderson. "Many stations in...
14 Mar 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst For U.S. grain producers, the presence of noncommercial traders in grain futures has always been both a blessing and a curse, and we are already seeing evidence of that again in 2018. Friday's CFTC data showed noncommercial speculators increased net-long holdings in corn a sixth consecutive week to 320,384 contracts, the ...
13 Mar 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The two largest general farm organizations have a different take on what should happen with the Section 199A tax provision, but 77 separate businesses in 28 states also have written a letter to Congress calling on lawmakers to fix the problems created by the "grain glitch." The letter includes co...