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27 Jun 2017
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent BEIJING (DTN) -- There are very diverse survey reports in China recently, showing the disagreement of different organizations in corn crop acreage, but most of the reports showed that Chinese farmers may have cut more corn acreage. With summer second-crop planting still underway, industry analysts peg China's corn ...
27 Jun 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst Last week, the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and others responded to the Surface Transportation Board's request for comments on improving procedures, saying that the nature of the SAC standard the board uses is the single greatest source of delay in processing SAC cases. It's been over two years since t...
26 Jun 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers aren't certain if they would fare better under the health care bill in the U.S. Senate, but they are looking for relief from a steady rise in premiums and wider spread of deductibles they've seen over the past several years. Matt Stalzer, who farms corn and soybeans with his family near ...
26 Jun 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The winter wheat harvest will be a lot shorter than usual this year for Kent Eddy. The western Kansas farmer estimates he will only harvest 60% of his wheat crop where he farms near the town of Syracuse. The culprit? Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), which spread across the western thi...
26 Jun 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A Kansas jury has awarded farmers $217.7 million in compensatory damages in the first of several class-action lawsuits filed against Syngenta over the shipment of Viptera corn to China. The jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas in Kansas City took less than a day to render a ver...