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25 May 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Senior EPA officials deliberately mishandled the agency's 2018 registration decision for three dicamba herbicides -- FeXapan, XtendiMax, and Engenia -- according to the agency's Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG, a federal agency tasked with reviewing EPA decisions and policy for abuse and errors, issued a scathing...
25 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- With areas of the High Plains already in severe drought and weather forecasts calling for worsening drought in some parts of the region, the strategic culling of cows is vitally important. With forages and feedstuffs in limited supply, many cow-calf producers will need to reduce their herd size in order to weather these uncertain tim...
25 May 2021
Scott Wallis didn't get narrow-minded overnight. The Princeton, Indiana, farmer studied the idea of moving to 20-inch rows for three years before making the switch in both corn and soybeans. Narrow-row beans were a no-brainer. It was corn that required the numbers crunching. While Wallis was convinced reducing row width would result in a more effic...
24 May 2021
This article was originally posted at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 24. It was last updated at 4:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 24. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- With three-quarters of the crop seeded by the end of last week, this year's U.S. soybean planting pace remains the fastest it has been in over 12 years, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report ...
24 May 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Senior EPA officials deliberately mishandled the agency's 2018 registration decision for three dicamba herbicides -- FeXapan, XtendiMax, and Engenia -- according to the agency's Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG, a federal agency tasked with reviewing EPA decisions and policy for abuse and errors, issued a scathing...