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3 Mar 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Ethanol industry leaders want the Obama administration to launch a complaint with the World Trade Organization against China's anti-dumping investigation into dried distillers grains imported from the United States. In a letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday, Bob Dinneen, president and chief e...
3 Mar 2016
By Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- A group of companies and universities have come together to create a central data repository, or cloud, to help farmers store data and share that information with various agronomic and technical service providers. The Agricultural Data Coalition rolled out details about its pilot project o...
2 Mar 2016
By Alastair StewartSouth America Correspondent NOVA XAVANTINA, Brazil (DTN) -- Dry weather in eastern Mato Grosso has not only hurt soybeans, but the delays to the summer crop will also force many to plant second-crop corn later than recommended in this expansion region of Brazil's grain belt. But that is not going to stop farmers from increasing ...
2 Mar 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to move lower the fourth week of February 2016, according to fertilizer retails surveyed by DTN. However, retailers report there are signs these lower fertilizer prices could reverse in the coming weeks and months. With spring application season gaining steam,...
2 Mar 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- Nobody in Washington, D.C., understands agriculture. That's a frequent bone of contention among farmers when they come into Washington, noted Jon Doggett, executive vice president for public policy at the National Corn Growers Association. His solution is to start building a list of qualifie...