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2 Feb 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday praised President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court as a justice who would likely favor agriculture and private property rights in lawsuits dealing with regulatory overreach. After denying the pre...
2 Feb 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst This is the week that hundreds of millions of Chinese workers travel to their hometowns and families to celebrate the start of a new Lunar Year -- in this case, 2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster. For at least a full week, and sometimes longer, they will travel across the countryside, prepare New Year's reun...
1 Feb 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A pair of former U.S. agriculture secretaries have written a letter endorsing the merger of Dow and DuPont. The merger is needed to help the agricultural divisions of Dow and DuPont compete against even larger companies in the seed and ag-chemical sectors, the secretaries wrote. Former secretari...
1 Feb 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst One of the challenges of writing daily market comments is the urge to try to make sense out of all the market's ups and downs as if there should be some logical explanation for everything that happens. Two weeks ago, soybeans went up because of flooding concerns in Argentina. Since then, soybeans went down, partly becaus...
1 Feb 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent ORLANDO (DTN) — The American Seed Trade Association does not yet have a position on Republican proposals to establish a border tax on goods coming in from Mexico, but the industry is concerned about it because U.S. companies send seed to Mexico to be "multiplied" and then imported into the United States...