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12 Oct 2020
MASON CITY, Iowa (DTN) -- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue promoted biofuels and USDA's investment in projects such as blender pumps during a series of events in Iowa and Minnesota on Thursday. The official purpose of the events at an ethanol plant in Mason City and fuel stations in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and Ankeny, Iowa, was to highligh...
9 Oct 2020
MASON CITY, Iowa (DTN) -- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue promoted biofuels and USDA's investment in projects such as blender pumps during a series of events in Iowa and Minnesota on Thursday. The official purpose of the events at an ethanol plant in Mason City and fuel stations in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and Ankeny, Iowa, was to highligh...
9 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...
9 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Reid Thompson took Sunday, Oct. 4, off -- smack in the midst of harvest. Let the collective gasps begin. "We work really hard during the week with the goal of keeping Sunday for family," said Thompson, who farms near Colfax, Illinois. "I'm not going to say we will never work on a Sunday, but we've made a commitment to try to ...
8 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The farm input supply chain is in transition as the industry sees great competition from e-commerce. The traditional agricultural supply landscape in North America is facing threats from smaller startups with less fixed costs. New business models put the farmer more in the middle of the chain where products are bought and sold but al...