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4 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- In an attempt to level pork trade with Thailand, the Trump administration this week suspended about $817 million in trade preferences for Thailand that were causing billions of dollars in trade deficits for producers in the United States. The decision announced by the U.S. Trade Representative was made under the generalized system of...
4 Nov 2020
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at Kubota Tractor Corporation's launch of its new L60LE Series tractors, Summers Manufacturing's new Supercoulter Samurai tillage tool, and the new level of roading performance Camso is offering for its Trailed Track Systems used on planters, fertilizer carts, sprayers and harvest carts. ** KU...
3 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Environmental groups are challenging the Trump administration's approval of atrazine and two related herbicides, propazine and simazine, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco to set aside the registrations from the EPA's September 2020 decision. The petition, filed by the Rural Coalition, Pesticide A...
3 Nov 2020
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- The Calamus-Wheatland (Iowa) Community School District FFA Chapter on Tuesday will live up to one of the most important parts of the FFA motto: living to serve. Fourteen Calamus-Wheatland FFA members volunteered to serve as precinct election officials or helpers on Election Day. The students are part of a statewide FFA initiat...
3 Nov 2020
After being closed on July 1, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Rock Island District, announced on Oct. 29 that lock and dam construction was complete and the Illinois Waterway locks have re-opened to navigation after a series of planned, extended consolidated closures. "With construction coming to an end at Dresden Island, Starved Rock and...