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25 Feb 2016
By Jim PatricoProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Sounds like magic: Attach a set of sensors to your fertilizer applicator, drive it across a cornfield and sit back in the cab as technology "sees" crop health and applies the right amount of nutrients to produce the most profitable crop. That is the promise of technologies such as GreenSeeker by Trimbl...
24 Feb 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Cotton farmers looking for further federal support are caught in a political tussle that doesn't appear to have any quick solution. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack stood his ground Wednesday in a House Agriculture Committee hearing looking at the state of the rural economy. Vilsack maint...
24 Feb 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The rusty orange dust that coated Scates Farm's combines last fall was as damaging as it was messy and unexpected. The dust came from the Southern corn rust disease that swept through southern Illinois in August and damaged the Scates' late-season corn hybrids -- nearly one-third of thei...
24 Feb 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Members of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday drew lines in the sand on the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard -- mainly along party lines -- although the original law was passed along bipartisan lines back in 2005 and revamped in 2007. Though potential RFS reform d...
23 Feb 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati ruled it has jurisdiction to hear numerous legal challenges to the waters of the United States rule on Monday. In the court's majority opinion, Judge David W. McKeague wrote that because federal district courts issued conflicting rulings on...