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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...
2 Nov 2020
The past couple of months, we have had quite a discussion in this column about some of the lesser-known combine manufacturers with many responses from readers about a wide variety of subjects. Today, we look at some more stories. ** "At one time, Oliver made just about everything in the way of farm equipment. The tractors were popular around here, ...
2 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Cow-calf producer Garrett Wolf allows his cattle to graze alfalfa from late-November until roughly mid-January. "It's the most efficient way to take off second-cut (alfalfa), in my opinion," Wolf, from Spruce View, Alberta, Canada, told DTN. Alfalfa stands can provide supplemental forage for cattle in the fall and winter. The practic...