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13 Oct 2020
On Oct. 3, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) St. Paul District began to lower the Mississippi River water level immediately below St. Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The purpose of drawing down the river is to allow for inspection of infrastructure that is normally underwater. According to USACE, engineers are planning to c...
13 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- California rancher Megan Brown moved home to work on her parents' cattle ranch. The pay is low, which helps to keep the ranch in her family, and Brown started raising heritage hogs to boost her income. Health insurance is tricky, but Brown qualifies for Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program. She's frustrated because Medi-Cal hasn't...
13 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- After several years of low corn rootworm populations, the "billion-dollar bug" is catching eyes again in the Corn Belt. Populations of both western and northern corn rootworm are rebounding after a mild winter and favorable egg hatch conditions this year, and they're bringing some bad habits along: growing Bt resistance. Cor...
12 Oct 2020
Being called narrow-minded when it comes to corn production is a compliment to a University of Illinois crop scientist and a pair of Hoosier farmers. Randy Bales and his son, Brad, of Lewisville, Indiana, used to plant corn in 30-inch rows like most farmers nationwide. They switched to 20-inch rows in 2017 after seeing results from several years of...
12 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Two scientists -- Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna -- were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their work developing CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing tool. The announcement marks the first time this specific category of the Nobel Prize has been shared by two women, who developed CRISPR-Cas9 independent...