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15 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The hectic harvest season may not seem like a time for personal reflection, but Ryan Jenkins will tell you he does his best pondering seated behind the steering wheel of a cotton or peanut picker. Reid Thompson finds the combine to be a good thinking spot too. Perhaps it is that long view across the landscape afforded from th...
15 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- It's been a busy day in federal courts for JBS SA, its Brazilian owners and its poultry subsidiary, Pilgrim's Pride, as the meatpacking conglomerate was ordered to pay a combined $393 million in fines in two separate federal court cases. In the first case, out of the U.S. District Court for Eastern New York, in Brooklyn, J&F Investim...
14 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Rattan Lal, a soil scientist from Ohio State University and the 2020 Word Food Prize laureate, makes his case that agriculture globally must take better care of its most valuable resource to not only produce more, healthier food in the future, but also help remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Lal spoke in a livestreamed spee...
14 Oct 2020
Jim Ruen, Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor John Verell III is a corn-yield champion, but pushing seeding rates is not part of his winning strategy on his farm, near Jackson, Tennessee. In 2019, a yield of 320.8 bushels per acre (bpa) earned him first place in Tennessee for no-till, nonirrigated corn in the National Corn Growers Association Na...
14 Oct 2020
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- The world will lose about 250 million crop production acres by 2050, according to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The possibility of losing the equivalent of roughly two-thirds of the cultivated land in the United States is alarming, said Jerry Hatfield. But the director of the U.S. ...