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16 May 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- The Wheat Quality Council's annual Hard Winter Wheat (HWW) Tour this week will provide the latest assessment of crop quality and production. Kansas HWW fields will be primarily evaluated, along with a few in southern Nebraska and northern Oklahoma, during the four-day event that starts in Manhattan, Kansas. Field sampling star...
13 May 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- The Wheat Quality Council's annual Hard Winter Wheat (HWW) Tour next week will provide the latest assessment of crop quality and production. Kansas HWW fields will be primarily evaluated, along with a few in southern Nebraska and northern Oklahoma, during the four-day event that starts in Manhattan, Kansas. Field sampling star...
13 May 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Didion Milling Inc. and six employees violated federal safety laws that lead to the deaths of five employees and 12 injuries in a 2017 explosion of the company's corn milling plant in Cambria, Wisconsin, according to a federal indictment announced by the Department of Justice on Friday. The indictment handed down by a federal...
13 May 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- With many planters still stalled by wet weather, some farmers are eying the calendar and wondering when and if they should switch to shorter-season corn hybrids or soybean varieties. For most, there is more time than they might expect, explained Brent Tharp, a technical product manager for Wyffels Hybrids. Most research sugg...
13 May 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- A rapid expansion of soybean crush capacity is underway in the United States to meet future soybean oil demand for renewable diesel. At least 14 new soy processing projects are in various stages of construction, expansion or development, according to recent company announcements. Altogether, about 450 million bushels (mb) of a...