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2 Aug 2016
By Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (DTN) -- Key congressional and USDA leaders on Monday committed themselves to the future of the U.S. sugar program as industry officials and analysts talked about the struggles that beet producers and cane refiners are experiencing in the midst of imports from Mexico and the contr...
1 Aug 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and soybean farmer Roger Ideker says his river bottomland near St. Joseph, Mo., is still scarred from Missouri River flooding five years ago. The 2011 Missouri River basin flood caused an estimated $2 billion in damage in several states. The basin was overrun with flood waters from spring rains a...
1 Aug 2016
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- The U.S. and Brazil signed agreements to reopen their ports to each other's fresh and frozen beef in an important symbolic move for the South American producer. At an event in Brasilia Monday, Brazilian President Michel Temer announced the deal, ending the extended ban on...
1 Aug 2016
By Cheri ZagurskiDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Soybean condition ratings improved slightly while corn held steady during the week ended July 31, according to USDA's latest Crop Progress report released Monday. The nation's corn crop is 91% silked and 30% in the dough stage, compared to 79% and 13% last week, 87% and 25% last year and five-year...
29 Jul 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law the Senate bill creating a mandatory disclosure and labeling for foods with ingredients from genetically engineered crops. Despite the political charge of the issue in the agricultural industry and among anti-biotech lobby groups, the announcement ...