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23 Dec 2015
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor A corn seedling emerges from the soil. The spike, working like radar, examines the environment around it, measuring light and searching for competitors. If it detects another plant, a conversation begins. Clarence Swanton, professor in the department of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, O...
22 Dec 2015
Several groups took advantage of the Surface Transportation Board's waiver of its prohibition on ex parte communications to give their views on the board's proposed rules on railroad performance data reporting. The waiver allowed interested parties to schedule meetings with board staff to discuss the proposed rules instead of having to submit all c...
22 Dec 2015
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Imitation has been the sincerest form of frustration for plant pathologist Tom Allen and other researchers investigating a new disease that's being called soybean taproot decline. The Mississippi State University scientist had observed some odd conditions in soybean f...
22 Dec 2015
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- National retail fertilizer prices continued to drift lower the third week of December 2015, according to dealers tracked by DTN. That's a move that could offer modest breaks for corn budgets in 2016. All eight of the major fertilizers edged lower compared to a month earlier, but none were down signific...
21 Dec 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite large spikes in nitrates in water during times of heavy rains following drought, overall nitrate levels have been falling in Iowa's Raccoon River watershed between 1999 and 2014, according to a study recently completed by the Iowa Soybean Association. Des Moines Water Works has sued 10 draina...