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14 Aug 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The scientist who is the subject of a congressional investigation into an international body's declaration that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic to humans," told DTN he did not hold back information that was contrary to the finding. Dr. Aaron Blair, a scientist at the National Cancer Institute, is...
11 Aug 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Walt Disney Co. paid Beef Products Inc. a settlement of at least $177 million as a result of a defamation suit filed against ABC News by Beef Products over the network's coverage of lean, finely textured beef, according to a third-quarter financial report released by Disney on Tuesday. Dakota Dunes, S...
11 Aug 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Andy Weisser has seen rain on his Roscoe, South Dakota, farm/ranch in recent weeks, but before that, very little rain fell in 2017. While the moisture will help some spring-planted crops, the rains came too late for most forages in the Northern Plains. "We have improved tremendously since we have had ...
11 Aug 2017
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Nikolaj Morris, or Nik to his friends, had grown up on a farm near Sterlington, Louisiana. By his early 20s, with a construction management degree in hand from the University of Louisiana Monroe, he was building a good place for himself in the home construction industry. "I was making a good dollar" an...
10 Aug 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Congress has opened an investigation into why a scientist at the National Cancer Institute allegedly withheld information from an international cancer research body that showed the widely used herbicide glyphosate did not cause cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, conclud...