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18 Jan 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst If I weren't a grain market analyst, I would want to have the job of the person who compiles all the strange statistics for football announcers to tell the crowd in between plays: "This is Jackmerius Buckshank's seventh interception in the past eight games played west of Mississippi River on Sunday nights, Joh...
17 Jan 2017
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Kevin Bradley wants to clear up a few misunderstandings about last summer's dicamba debacles. "Some farmers in the Midsouth misused dicamba last year. There's no question about that," said Bradley. "But comments that the recently approved formulations are going to m...
17 Jan 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by South Dakota farmer Arlen Foster challenging a USDA wetlands determination system, the court ruled last week. Foster challenged the Natural Resource Conservation Service's use of a so-called "reference site" in Kingsbury County about 33 miles from th...
17 Jan 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Four days off his old job, former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was announced as the new president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council. The information had been leaked weeks ago, though Vilsack had declined to confirm his plans before leaving office. The U.S. Dairy Export Council confirm...
16 Jan 2017
By Alan BruglerDTN Contributing Analyst USDA sprung a number of different reports on grain producers Thursday morning. They included weekly Export Sales, final Crop Production, quarterly Grain Stocks and World Supply and Demand (WASDE) reports. Several of the numbers were outside the range of trade estimates coming into the reports. If you had unpr...