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5 Mar 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The Arkansas State Plant Board voted Wednesday, March 4, in favor of a new rule to adopt the EPA's federal dicamba cutoff dates for over-the-top dicamba use in the state in 2021. While procedural hurdles remain, the decision is a stark reversal from the board's previous vote in December 2020 to keep its May 25 dicamba cutoff...
4 Mar 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- By the time your sprayer rolls into a 12-inch corn field and zaps a row full of 4-inch waterhemp, you've already lost yield to those baby weeds. That's a hard thought to stomach, but there is growing research to back it up. That science was on display during a Commodity Classic session on the effect of crop pests on producti...
4 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal court in South Carolina granted a 60-day stay in an ongoing lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's Navigable Waters Protection Rule. The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asked for the stay from the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina to allow more time to review the rule. The lawsuit, brou...
4 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- How to respond to pressure for agriculture to sequester carbon and reduce emissions is a theme running through discussions during the online Commodity Classic this week. During the opening session of Commodity Classic, leaders of the major commodity groups offered their takes on agriculture's moves to focus more on climate change, as...
3 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- House Democratic leaders stripped a provision from the latest aid package that would have helped farmers suffering from crop losses -- including losses due to high winds or derechos -- before the House held its early Saturday vote on coronavirus aid relief. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Tuesday called out House leaders for strippin...