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22 May 2023
The USACE consolidated lock repair schedule will be in its final phase beginning June 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2023. The full closure schedule is for approximately 120 days. The 2023 closure won't affect as much grain traffic as happened in the 2020 closure of five locks, but any business moving product by barge above the 2023 closures will defin...
22 May 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The American Farm Bureau Federation announced the signing of two new memorandums of understanding with ag equipment manufacturers Kubota Tractor Corp. and AGCO to continue to provide necessary diagnostic and other equipment to farmers and independent repair shops. The MOUs are said to cover 70% of all agriculture machinery so...
19 May 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- A five-year-old or older beef cow from Tennessee sent for slaughter at a South Carolina processing plant has tested positive for an atypical case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). USDA reported the details on the latest case of BSE late Friday afternoon. In a news release, USDA officials stated the cow was tested as part of ...
18 May 2023
MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- The Kansas wheat crop of 1963 was a disaster. A USDA report on the harvest cited yield loss from planting delayed by rain and from persistent drought. There were freezes but no snow and invasions from Hessian flies and armyworms. It produced the lowest total bushels of wheat in the state in the years since. Following the th...
17 May 2023
WICHITA, Kan. (DTN) -- The southwest corner of Kansas on Wednesday was like a land time forgot. Despite it being a modestly warm day in late spring, there was no fieldwork underway and few acres, if any, had been planted with fall crops. The wheat, sown last fall, hovered frozen between life and death, seemingly too small and sparse to make a crop,...