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20 Mar 2020
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Just last Friday, Whiskey Acres Distilling Company was making plans to expand its DeKalb, Illinois-based and award-winning spirits business to Nebraska. But the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic swept those plans aside. Only a few days later, Whiskey Acres President and CEO Jamie Walter is preparing...
20 Mar 2020
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Commodity markets finally pushed back Thursday after a week of brutal trading days with futures prices in grains, livestock and energy sectors all ending in the green. Stocks and commodity markets rose despite continued negative headlines and economic concerns about the coronavirus, including a surge of unemployment cl...
20 Mar 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter For more than two decades, Joe Spencer has spent many a summer evening standing atop 30-foot-tall towers above corn fields, trying to catch adult Western corn rootworm beetles as they buzz by looking for a place to lay eggs. Lately, he's been a little lonely up there. "Populations are pretty low right now," said...
19 Mar 2020
By Greg D. HorstmeierDTN Editor-in-Chief The past week, ending oddly enough on a Friday the 13th, was one of the most remarkable weeks of our lifetime. In a few days the pace of change, from the huge drops in stock market values to the massive cancellations of major sporting events, closing of recreational parks and shutting down other public activ...
19 Mar 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Fields that were flooded or lay fallow in 2019 may require extra management for the 2020 spring planting season. The two top concerns will be weed control and nutrient availability issues, particularly a phenomenon called "fallow syndrome" in cornfields. Brace for high weed seedbanks and...