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18 Jan 2022
TREMONT, Ill. (DTN) -- Precision Planting announced Tuesday it's getting into the sprayer business. The company known for developing smart products and technology to make planters better plans to do the same thing for sprayers. The Illinois-based company, owned by AGCO, revealed projects focused on improving the operation and data collection of spr...
14 Jan 2022
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in a wild American wigeon in Colleton County, South Carolina, USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced late Friday afternoon. This is the first time the virus, Eurasian H5 HPAI, has been detected in a wild bird in the United ...
14 Jan 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Ethan Zoerb has never seen an American burying beetle, but the insect is threatening to bury his soybean plans for 2022. Two Nebraska counties where he and his father, Dale, farm are among those prohibited from using Corteva's Enlist herbicides next year to protect the endangered beetle, according to new labels issued on Jan...
14 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Overall good economic conditions in agriculture led to the lowest non-real estate agriculture lending at commercial banks in the fourth quarter of 2021 in nearly a decade, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. According to the national survey of terms of lending to farmers, smaller-sized loan...
13 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A North Dakota farm filed a class-action lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging John Deere is violating the Sherman Act in not making diagnostic software available to farmers who want to repair their own equipment. The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern Illinois alleges John Deere has monopolized th...