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10 Oct 2016
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser "Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness." ---Thomas Jefferson Among all of the financial assets you pass on to the next generation, perhaps none is as valuable and unique as your agricultural land. Indeed, land holds a specia...
10 Oct 2016
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The two houses of Congress passed two versions of a bill aimed at refurbishing the nation's aging water transportation infrastructure before adjourning for pre-election campaigning. An industry expert told DTN chances are good the bills will be reconciled and passed as one in the lame duck session following t...
7 Oct 2016
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist What is your goal for fall tillage? Is it to process residue, blacken the soil or break compaction layer? Perhaps you want to incorporate fertilizer and soil amendments like compost, gypsum, lime or manure. Maybe you need to incorporate cover crop seed. The task determines the tool to select and in som...
7 Oct 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Bayer CropSciences' decision to drop its fight to keep Belt SC insecticide on the market comes at a time when one Midsouth entomologist said farmers can ill-afford to lose another weapon to fight pests. University of Arkansas entomologist Gus Lorenz said it was a particularly difficult pest season in...
7 Oct 2016
By Chris Clayton\DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A Chinese national caught stealing transgenic corn seeds has been sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets. The U.S. Justice Department announced Mo Hailong, also known as Robert Mo, 46, was sentenced out of the U.S. District Court for Southern Iow...