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10 Jan 2022
While the far Upper Mississippi River hibernates for the winter, things are not looking good at St. Louis, where water levels are below zero gauge. In fact, the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers remain low, while the Ohio River is forecast to move above minor flood stage Jan. 10. "St. Louis Harbor water levels remain low and are expected to con...
7 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A Chinese national and former employee of Monsanto Co. and The Climate Corp. pleaded guilty Thursday to committing economic espionage, according to the Department of Justice, after he was caught stealing trade secrets from Monsanto to benefit the People's Republic of China. Xiang Haitao, 44, a former researcher for both compa...
7 Jan 2022
STARKVILLE, Miss. (DTN) -- Corn, soybean, wheat and cotton prices are expected to remain high in 2022 thanks to good demand, moderate supplies and weather-related production fears. Despite skyrocketing input costs -- namely fertilizer -- good profit potential exists for commodities during the current marketing year and into the next, according to W...
7 Jan 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A group of environmental organizations is asking a federal court to lift a stay and expedite their lawsuit demanding EPA vacate its 2020 dicamba registrations of Engenia, Tavium and XtendiMax. The group, led by the Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity, filed a motion in the U.S. District Court of Arizon...
6 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Former Washington state rancher Cody Allen Easterday is scheduled to be sentenced on June 13, after a federal judge on Thursday granted a third continuance in a complex case that includes a guilty plea on wire fraud charges in a so-called ghost-cattle scheme and an ongoing massive bankruptcy case. Easterday, who is also invol...