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14 Mar 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has placed a 90-day hold on a rule set to take effect Tuesday in response to the tragic April 2013 ammonium nitrate explosion at West Fertilizer Co. in West, Texas, as the agency considers writing a new rule. On Aug. 1, 2013, President Barack Obama issued an e...
14 Mar 2017
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser I remember a situation many years ago in which a son told his "retired" father to stop interfering in the business, and he threatened to call the sheriff the next time Dad set foot on the ranch. Calling law enforcement? That sounded so extreme, I thought. But then I came to see the reasons why the son migh...
14 Mar 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Net farm income falling for the fourth straight year is the key takeaway from a crop and livestock forecast released Monday by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri. The report projects declines in corn and wheat acres this spring, but FAPRI stil...
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...