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3 Feb 2022
PEORIA, Ill. (DTN) -- Tar spot could threaten corn this growing season just like it did in 2021. Damon Smith, a University of Wisconsin associate professor and plant pathologist, delivered the prediction recently at the 2022 Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association Winter Convention in Peoria, Illinois. Where and how bad the yield-robbing disea...
2 Feb 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Though the Build Back Better Act remains stalled in Congress, the top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee questioned Wednesday whether USDA would be ready to dole out what would be a dramatic increase in conservation funds if the bill eventually passed. The House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry...
2 Feb 2022
By Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor, and Todd Neeley, DTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Leaders from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association said Wednesday the group was "disturbed" by a $52.5 million settlement reached by JBS USA Food Co. and a group of direct meat buyers as part of a large class-action suit against the four largest beef pack...
2 Feb 2022
HOUSTON (DTN) -- A fundamental shift in the beef industry's supply-chain mindset is likely as the U.S. moves into a post-COVID world. That shift will focus less on "just-in-time" delivery of product, and more on a system that tries to have contingencies built in "just in case." Don Close, senior protein analyst for Rabobank, released a ground-break...
1 Feb 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Farm equipment manufacturers would be required to provide all diagnostic equipment to farmers and the Federal Trade Commission would have authority to go after companies that don't under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The right to repair increasingly has become an issue in agriculture and other industries wi...