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14 Jan 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- EPA's request to conduct an Endangered Species Act review of the insecticide sulfoxaflor was rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, in a ruling handed down on Tuesday. The agency was sued in 2019 by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity for failing to conduct a revie...
14 Jan 2021
Back in the fall, there were 4.66 billion bushels (bb) of soybeans in this country: 525 million bushels (mb) left over from the previous year and 4.135 bb of newly grown beans. There was no single moment in time when all the new beans were harvested out of the fields before some of the rest were being gobbled up by processing plants, but if there h...
14 Jan 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers in Mississippi are hoping moves by EPA to advance a pumping project off the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers will mitigate repeated flooding that has affected the area over the past decade. But environmental groups are looking to block the long-standing Army Corps' of Engineers project from going forward. The Yazoo Backwater Area...
13 Jan 2021
ROCKVILLLE, MD. (DTN) -- China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs published import approvals for five GM (genetically modified) corn and cotton traits on Jan. 11. Some were approvals for new traits, namely MZIR098, a glufosinate-tolerant corn trait with two rootworm proteins from Syngenta, and MON 87411, Bayer's SmartStax Pro corn trait th...
13 Jan 2021
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:03 a.m. CDT. It was updated at 12:22 p.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Tuesday released its January Crop Production, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), Quarterly Stocks and Winter Wheat Seedings reports. USDA lowered soybean ending stocks to 140 million bushels (mb), a 35 mb de...