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5 Aug 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden on Thursday is moving ahead aggressively with his administration's push to ratchet down greenhouse-gas emissions through electric vehicles. The president will sign an executive order to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 "zero-emission" vehicles, including battery, fuel-cell and plug-in hybrid electric veh...
5 Aug 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Ryan Wieck recently lost a friend in a crop-dusting accident, and while that profession comes with extraordinary risks, such tragedy often triggers thoughts of one's own vulnerabilities. It doesn't help that the Texas Panhandle farmer has had his share of cringe-worthy near misses. Several years ago, he raised the high-cleara...
4 Aug 2021
A heavy downpour would be a disaster for most field days. But, the muddy mess was the perfect opportunity for Michael Ott, CEO of Rantizo, to show off how a new system of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) works together to spray pesticides and seed crops. "If you needed to spray today, you couldn't with a ground rig," Ott says during a media day at t...
4 Aug 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Farmers could purchase a ton of potash for $353 last July. That same ton of fertilizer costs $549 today, according to DTN's weekly survey of fertilizer retailers for the last week of July 2021. While the average retail cost of potash is up 15% from the same time last month, none of the seven other fertilizers tracked by D...
4 Aug 2021
Des KellerProgressive Farmer Editor Inside a portion of a large industrial warehouse in Gas City, Indiana, farmer-owned Heartland Harvest Processing is at the forefront of the effort to move beyond the initial boom -- and near bust -- of the hemp-growing CBD (cannabidiol) oil market. The company is the creation of Kline Family Farms -- Jim Kline an...