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22 Jun 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A trading and investment firm in Memphis, Tennessee, and two of the company's senior leaders have been fined more than $5 million by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for intentionally trying to avoid contract limits on live cattle contracts in 2012 and 2013. The CFTC entered into an orde...
22 Jun 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- With most of the country's corn and soybeans in the ground, insects and diseases are ramping up in their usual summer fashion. Some Midwest and Mid-South growers are facing rising Japanese beetle populations, and soybean aphid populations also are picking up in the northern Cornbelt. Me...
22 Jun 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- With most of the country's corn and soybeans in the ground, insects and diseases are ramping up in their usual summer fashion. Some Midwest and Mid-South growers are facing rising Japanese beetle populations, and soybean aphid populations also are picking up in the northern Cornbelt. Me...
22 Jun 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The National Farmers Union and state affiliates in the Northern Plains are calling on Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to allow emergency haying and grazing on Conservation Reserve Program acres. In a letter to Perdue, National Farmers Union wrote that farmers and ranchers in the upper Great Pl...
22 Jun 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The National Farmers Union and state affiliates in the Northern Plains are calling on Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to allow emergency haying and grazing on Conservation Reserve Program acres. In a letter to Perdue, National Farmers Union wrote that farmers and ranchers in the upper Great Pl...