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6 Oct 2016
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor BANFF, Alberta (DTN) -- Two years ago, McDonald's Corporation made news at the annual meeting of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association by announcing it would begin buying sustainable beef by 2016. Bob Langert, then head of the company's environmental and sustainability operations division and...
6 Oct 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter Editor's note: This story was updated with a statement from Dow AgroSciences at 12:50 p.m. CDT. The original story was posted at 8:38 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 5. ** ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Entomologists are sounding the alarm that Cry1F, Dow AgroScience's and DuPont Pioneer's aboveground Herculex I trait, is...
6 Oct 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A recent legal move by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association to have a say in the release of documents related to government audits of the beef checkoff system has been challenged by the group that sued for those documents. A lawsuit filed in 2014 by the Organization for Competitive Markets demand...
6 Oct 2016
By Danny KlinefelterDTN Farm Business Adviser To communicate effectively, we first have to get beyond the listener's concerns and perceptions that either distort or screen out much of the message we are trying to send. Whether we like it or not, the perception in the mind of the listener is his/her reality. In lender-borrower relationships there a...
5 Oct 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN continued to slide lower the fourth week of September 2016, although the amount of declines is not as much as in recent weeks. All eight of the major fertilizers are lower compared to last month with only two fertilizers down a considerable amount. Down 6% compar...