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14 Sep 2015
By Mary KennedyDTN Staff Reporter MINNEAPOLIS (DTN) -- Individual states could decide whether to raise the maximum allowable weight for freight-shipping trucks from the current 80,000 pounds to 91,000 pounds under a bill introduced in the U.S. House on Sept. 10. U.S. Representative Reid Ribble, R-Wis., who introduced the Safe, Flexible, and Efficie...
14 Sep 2015
By Alastair StewartSouth America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- Brazilian agronomists are warning about the potentially significant threat of Asian soybean rust in Mato Grosso in the upcoming 2015-16 season. Populations of voluntary soybeans have been high in the north and west of Brazil's top-producing soy state, probably nurtured by unc...
11 Sep 2015
By Des KellerProgressive Farmer Contributor A 20-year tradition is in top gear on a bright, cool, mid-September day in the bustling kitchen of Kerri and Kyle Mehmen, near Plainfield, in northeast Iowa. Seven women are cooking -- boy are they ever. Two large frying pans sizzle under the weight of several pounds of hamburger. Two women are slicing an...
11 Sep 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal court Thursday rejected the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's unconditional approval of Dow AgroScience's insecticide sulfoxaflor. How that ruling will affect growers using the product in 2015 remains to be seen. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled EPA did not have enough data...
11 Sep 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy EditorandKatie MicikDTN Markets Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- USDA slightly reduced projected corn yields to an average 167.5 bushels an acre while boosting the expected soybean yield to 47.1 bushels an acre. USDA lowered corn production by 100 million bushels from the August projection. Soybean production was bumped up b...