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27 Dec 2016
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the top 10 ag news stories of the year. Today we continue our rundown with No. 7 how dicamba herbicide captured headlines throughout the 2016 season as acres of crops tolerant to the herbicide were planted without a registered dic...
27 Dec 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Nothing draws attention like a showdown of titans and the coming Trump versus China battle royal is setting up to be a doozy, bigger than any WWE smack down. In the blue corner, President-elect Trump has been taunting China for months, calling the world's second largest economy a currency manipulator and pledging to slap ...
23 Dec 2016
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Farmers anxious to take advantage of the new dicamba-tolerant herbicide trait in soybeans and cotton now have another herbicide option. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has registered Engenia, a low-volatility formulation from BASF. Engenia is a new variatio...
23 Dec 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The search for a new Agriculture secretary continues to broaden as President-elect Donald Trump's transition team said Thursday that he will meet next week with Elsa Murano, a former Texas A&M president and a USDA undersecretary for food safety under President George W. Bush. A Texan has never s...
23 Dec 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Trade Representative is planning a public hearing in mid-February to consider possibly reinstating punitive trade measures against the European Union over the EU's ban on beef grown with certain hormone implants. The hearing starts the process of possibly imposing punitive tariffs on as ...