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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...
10 Mar 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- New biotechnology products may attempt to enter the market in the next decade at a breakneck pace, but federal regulatory agencies may not be ready to keep up, according to a National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report released on Thursday. The NAS committee that authored the report spent the past ye...
9 Mar 2017
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Some called him the King of Wisner. Admirers with less of a dramatic flair referred to him as the master of two-way cattle. But most in his wide circle of friends within Cumming County, Nebraska, and the beef industry at large simply called him "Louie." Though Louis Dinklage has been dead for more than 30 yea...