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26 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Bitterly cold conditions and some rain and snow during the next six days will stall harvest and cause much stress to livestock in the Great Plains region. Overnight temperatures during the weekend into the beginning of next week could fall into the single digits Fahrenheit in northern areas of the Plains. STORM CROSSING PLAINS Accord...
26 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A presidential election that once seemed like an eternity is now in the final full week of campaigning, and farmers must make the decision whether they are better off now than they were four years ago. Agriculture has gone through four volatile years of trade wars, exacerbated by extreme weather events and a year wracked by COVID-19 ...
26 Oct 2020
If you've been so busy harvesting corn lately you haven't noticed prices, you'll be glad to hear December corn was up the first four days of this week and closed at $4.16 1/4 Thursday (Oct. 22), the highest in over a year. If you're trying to feed cattle or buy corn for your ethanol plant, these higher prices are getting annoying and don't make sen...
23 Oct 2020
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN looks at how robots performing row-crop field operations won a Chicago Innovation Award, a new report identifies initiatives to help farmers have a stronger relationship with equipment manufacturers, and Deere introduces three new snowblowers. ** RISE OF THE ROBOTS Sabanto Inc. has been named a winner in the 19th annu...
23 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA released a flurry of interim registration decisions for 13 pyrethroid insecticides and one herbicide, paraquat, on Thursday morning. The decisions remain interim and not finalized, as the agency still has additional assessments to conduct, but they are a major step toward establishing the chemicals' continued use in the ...