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22 Dec 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Pennsylvania isn't necessarily the first place that springs to mind when one thinks of sorghum fields, which are so well suited to the semi-arid regions of the Southern Great Plains. But the crop once again proved its impressive versatility this year, after sorghum grower Ella Johnston, of Fulton County, Pennsylvania, set a ...
22 Dec 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- In what is becoming a familiar cycle, a group of environmental and farm groups have filed a lawsuit challenging EPA's latest round of dicamba herbicide registrations. The lawsuit was filed by the same groups whose lawsuit against the 2018 dicamba registrations ended in a federal court vacating three dicamba registrations on ...
21 Dec 2020
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at John Deere's award it received for its ActiveVision camera technology on its new X Series combines, and Kinze Manufacturing expands distribution in 18 states. ** John Deere announced this week an award in the Robotics category of the 2021 CES Innovation Awards. The awards program, owned by ...
21 Dec 2020
Dee River Ranch, a few miles from Aliceville, on the far western border of Alabama, has the feeling of a buttoned-up operation. Not in a soul-crushing sort of way, but an operation where a problem isn't long waiting for an answer, where experimentation defines the brand. The well-kept sign marking the entrance to Dee River hints at what works here....
21 Dec 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Soybean farmers whose fields were injured by off-target dicamba movement in the past six years could file claims for compensation as early as late December, after the details of a $300 million settlement with Monsanto (now a subsidiary of Bayer) were finalized Wednesday. The settlement is part of Bayer's efforts to settle on...