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30 Jan 2017
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Missouri farmers could face some stiff fines if they misuse dicamba herbicides this summer. Missouri Representative Don Rone, R-Portageville, has introduced legislation aimed at making sure farmers in that state use weed-control products correctly. Rone, who also far...
30 Jan 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst This is the week that hundreds of millions of Chinese workers travel to their hometowns and families to celebrate the start of a new Lunar Year -- in this case, 2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster. For at least a full week, and sometimes longer, they will travel across the countryside, prepare New Year's reun...
27 Jan 2017
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser In a recent column on goal setting, I suggested three areas of focus for the New Year: improving relationships, increasing family communication and capturing and sharing major life lessons or stories as part of your legacy. The idea is to take something a little more difficult to measure (versus quantifia...
27 Jan 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst One of the challenges of writing daily market comments is the urge to try to make sense out of all the market's ups and downs as if there should be some logical explanation for everything that happens. Two weeks ago, soybeans went up because of flooding concerns in Argentina. Since then, soybeans went down, partly becaus...
27 Jan 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In another day of falling out with a major trading partner, President Donald Trump and his team declared support for a potential 20% tax on all imports as one way to help fund the construction of a wall to separate the U.S. and Mexico. White House spokesman Sean Spicer told the White House press...