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2 Jul 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA will review the "Product of the USA" label for meat managed by the Food Safety and Inspection Service after the Federal Trade Commission voted to strengthen its enforcement of products labeled Made in the USA. "Today, the Federal Trade Commission took important steps to enhan...
2 Jul 2021
STILLWATER, Okla. (DTN) -- In May 2019 when torrential rains hit Stillwater, much of downtown was protected from catastrophic flooding by a dry dam and spillway structure that few people would notice driving past it when flooding wasn't imminent. But when it was needed, the small, dry, earthen dam on Stillwater Creek backed up the creek, filled to ...
2 Jul 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- After seven years of low to nonexistent profit margins, first-generation Kentucky farmer Ryan Bivens is looking forward to better revenue. However, he worries rising input costs will eat away at profit potential on his 6,000 acres of corn, soybeans and winter wheat. "It's a welcome time for sure ... we need a good year," ...
1 Jul 2021
By Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent, and Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- It would be illegal for the Chinese government or its state-run companies to own farmland in the U.S., and land currently owned by Chinese companies would be excluded from receiving farm-program payments under an amendment added to the congre...
1 Jul 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The April-planted soybean field Chris DiFonzo scouted last week in Michigan was teeming with tiny green soybean aphids. The Michigan State entomologist counted an average of 400 to 500 aphids per plant, well above the 250-per-plant threshold to consider treatment. Time to spray, surely! Not so fast, DiFonzo cautioned. This w...