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7 Oct 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Bayer CropSciences' decision to drop its fight to keep Belt SC insecticide on the market comes at a time when one Midsouth entomologist said farmers can ill-afford to lose another weapon to fight pests. University of Arkansas entomologist Gus Lorenz said it was a particularly difficult pest season in...
7 Oct 2016
By Chris Clayton\DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A Chinese national caught stealing transgenic corn seeds has been sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets. The U.S. Justice Department announced Mo Hailong, also known as Robert Mo, 46, was sentenced out of the U.S. District Court for Southern Iow...
6 Oct 2016
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor BANFF, Alberta (DTN) -- Two years ago, McDonald's Corporation made news at the annual meeting of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association by announcing it would begin buying sustainable beef by 2016. Bob Langert, then head of the company's environmental and sustainability operations division and...
6 Oct 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter Editor's note: This story was updated with a statement from Dow AgroSciences at 12:50 p.m. CDT. The original story was posted at 8:38 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 5. ** ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Entomologists are sounding the alarm that Cry1F, Dow AgroScience's and DuPont Pioneer's aboveground Herculex I trait, is...
6 Oct 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A recent legal move by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association to have a say in the release of documents related to government audits of the beef checkoff system has been challenged by the group that sued for those documents. A lawsuit filed in 2014 by the Organization for Competitive Markets demand...