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1 Feb 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent ORLANDO (DTN) — The American Seed Trade Association does not yet have a position on Republican proposals to establish a border tax on goods coming in from Mexico, but the industry is concerned about it because U.S. companies send seed to Mexico to be "multiplied" and then imported into the United States...
31 Jan 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter While I didn't grow up with "red" tractors, we had enough family, friends and neighbors who did, so I was around International tractors even though we didn't have any. I had several friends growing up whose families farmed with IH equipment, and I learned about this equipment from them. I am fairly familiar with the...
31 Jan 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst At the end of last year, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board appeared on track to finalize several rules that would affect the nation's railroads and shippers who use rail service to move products, including agricultural products and fertilizer. Now a move by the new presidential administration to freeze re...
31 Jan 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Just a few weeks after writing to President Donald Trump, U.S. dairy groups are now calling on governors to halt new changes in Canadian dairy rules. A coalition of 17 American dairy organizations, farmers and milk processors have written governors in 25 states asking them to press Canada into h...
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...