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13 Mar 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- This bi-monthly column condenses the latest news in the field of crop technology, research and products. WATCH OUT WEEVIL Brazilian scientists have successfully inserted a Bt protein into cotton plants to target and kill the cotton boll weevil (CBW). The boll weevil was a major cotton pe...
13 Mar 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst The Upper Mississippi River is seeing an early opening to the 2017 shipping season thanks to warm weather in February melting ice on Lake Pepin. That's good news for grain and feed shippers as it provides another route to ship commodities downriver. On Feb. 15, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) St. Paul Dist...
13 Mar 2017
By Lynn Betts Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor A group of farmers in northern Iowa's heavily tiled Rock Creek Watershed are voluntarily taking proactive steps to keep nutrients from leaving their land. This farmer-led watershed project in Mitchell County is resulting in a lot more green fields and a lot less tillage. The state's Nutrient Redu...
10 Mar 2017
By Karl Wolfshohl Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor There's some irony in the fact that legendary Blues singer Muddy Waters spent his youth at Stovall Farms. Even the proximity of the murky Mississippi River can't cloud the commitment this Clarksdale, Mississippi, plantation has made to conservation and clean water. Pete Hunter manages the fa...
10 Mar 2017
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst Heading into Thursday's round of USDA Supply and Demand reports, the talk was whether USDA would take a small steps approach to possible South American production changes or go all in. In the flash of a micro-second, it was revealed that USDA was going all in on South America. Flooding in Argentina and Brazil? For...