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30 Jun 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Wheat took a beating in the Great Plains this year. A late-season winter blizzard coupled with an outbreak of wheat streak mosaic has left growers harvesting wildly different wheat crops across each state -- and sometimes within the same field. Despite the variable yields and damage, on...
30 Jun 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Early testimony from agricultural industries Tuesday on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement reflected an array of views on the impact of the trade deal and the Trump administration's move to renegotiate NAFTA. Fruit and vegetable farmers say their industry is being decimat...
29 Jun 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The federal government is turning back the clock on the controversial waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule -- quite literally -- with a proposal announced on Tuesday to recodify the law as it was written prior to 2015. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a news release that the mov...
29 Jun 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to show little movement in either direction the third week of June 2017, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. A look at data collected by DTN so far this year shows prices for some fertilizers have barely budged since the beginning of the year. Of the e...
29 Jun 2017
By Greg D. HorstmeierDTN Editor-in-Chief BASEL, Switzerland (DTN) -- Syngenta and its new owner, ChemChina, wasted little time basking in the satisfaction of a long-fought acquisition. Officials from both companies discussed the future of the seeds, biotech and crop chemical business at a June 27 press conference at Syngenta headquarters here. The...