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8 Jun 2022
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- It's a cold fact that hail can be an ugly, four-letter word. So far, early June has been filled with hail events scattered across several states. DTN Ag Meteorologist John Baranick said several of those events have produced hail with diameters in excess of 2 inches. Many of those events have been focused in Nebraska, Kansas a...
7 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Poet, the world's largest ethanol producer, has signed a letter of intent to capture, ship and store carbon for at least 18 of Poet's ethanol plants with the Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC pipeline that would store the carbon in Illinois. Under the letter of intent, Navigator will ship and store approximately 5 million metric tons (mmt) ...
7 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- From Aaron Popelka's viewpoint, for about one year, the Trump administration's Navigable Waters Protection rule helped to expand conservation efforts in Kansas. The Republic County rancher and vice president of legal and government affairs for the Kansas Livestock Association said during an EPA-hosted waters of the U.S. Midwe...
7 Jun 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- It wasn't pretty, but it got done -- that's the emerging motto of the 2022 planting season. With May rapidly slipping away, and corn seed still sitting in the planter, "Last week, we basically made the decision to just close our eyes and go," northwest Ohio farmer Genny Haun said. This spring was giving her family painful fl...
7 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Sounding alarm about drought and water stress in western states, senators and western water experts are trying to see how the next farm bill can play a role to keep western farmland in production. Led by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, a Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forest...