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30 Jan 2017
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Weeds such as waterhemp and Palmer amaranth may not have noses, but they are increasingly thumbing them at chemical controls as if they do. A report from the University of Illinois Plant Clinic shows an increasing number of fields across the Midwest tested positive f...
30 Jan 2017
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Missouri farmers could face some stiff fines if they misuse dicamba herbicides this summer. Missouri Representative Don Rone, R-Portageville, has introduced legislation aimed at making sure farmers in that state use weed-control products correctly. Rone, who also far...
30 Jan 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst This is the week that hundreds of millions of Chinese workers travel to their hometowns and families to celebrate the start of a new Lunar Year -- in this case, 2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster. For at least a full week, and sometimes longer, they will travel across the countryside, prepare New Year's reun...
27 Jan 2017
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser In a recent column on goal setting, I suggested three areas of focus for the New Year: improving relationships, increasing family communication and capturing and sharing major life lessons or stories as part of your legacy. The idea is to take something a little more difficult to measure (versus quantifia...
27 Jan 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst One of the challenges of writing daily market comments is the urge to try to make sense out of all the market's ups and downs as if there should be some logical explanation for everything that happens. Two weeks ago, soybeans went up because of flooding concerns in Argentina. Since then, soybeans went down, partly becaus...