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20 May 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Kellie Blair and Ryan Wieck may farm 900 miles apart, but they are singing the same song: More rain would be a good thing. Blair, who farms in Dayton, Iowa, is afraid to complain too loudly. There's a fine line between too little and too much moisture in these flat, rich soils of central Iowa. The Blair Farm corn and soybean ...
20 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- An Iowa farmer is the latest producer to file a class-action lawsuit arguing that Syngenta and Chevron USA failed to notify users of the alleged dangers of using paraquat-based pesticides, including the potential risk of acquiring Parkinson's disease. The companies face many ongoing legal challenges to the chemical's registra...
19 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A federal court on Wednesday vacated three small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard granted by the outgoing Trump administration on Jan. 19, according to a court ruling. The EPA on May 3 asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver to nullify the SREs. The court sent the exemptions back to th...
19 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN continue their march upward, as seven of eight major fertilizers showed month-over-month increases based on a survey of sellers in the second week of May. For the second straight week prices for UAN28 and UAN32 were significantly higher than the previous month. DTN designates significan...
19 May 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- How much corn could a cutworm cut if a cutworm could cut corn? Growers across the Midwest and Eastern Corn Belt will find out, as temperatures finally start climbing high enough for black cutworms to emerge from the eggs laid in the soil earlier this spring. Entomologists from Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Pe...