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8 Jan 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ST. LOUIS (DTN) -- What a difference a season makes. The floodwaters that swamped parts of Missouri and Illinois last week would have covered crops and swept away seedlings in the spring or summer. In late December, however, the biggest agronomic threat to farmers was the winter wheat crop hunkering down for th...
8 Jan 2016
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter While waning ethanol production resulted in a marginal increase of distillers grains in December, that run-up in prices seems to have ended with a slight downturn in prices this week. According to Abby Roberts -- merchandising manager for POET Nutrition in Sioux Falls, South Dakota -- December brought an end-of-...
7 Jan 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- As Bob Stallman was beginning a weeklong ride into the sunset, ending his 16-year term as president of the American Farm Bureau, the four candidates seeking to take the helm at Farm Bureau were gearing up to make their final pitches to the group's membership. Stallman was recognized Wednesday in Was...
7 Jan 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ST. LOUIS (DTN) -- The cotton industry is feeling the sting after the EPA concluded that the use of a popular neonicotinoid insecticide in cotton poses a high risk to bees. On Wednesday, the agency released its preliminary pollinator risk assessment for imidacloprid -- the active ingredient in Bayer Crop Science...
7 Jan 2016
By Dan DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist The buzzword in agronomy this past year has been soil health. I've written a lot about how to monitor and measure it. Still, there seem to be many questions about whether we are digging into what's going on or just scratching the surface. In my opinion, the two best soil health tests we have today are the ...