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22 Sep 2020
Spring wheat planting was adversely affected in the spring of 2020, especially in eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Many producers had to deal with overly wet field conditions and an unharvested crop that was still in the field from 2019. In addition, the frost had not come out of the ground in many places by the end of April, further s...
21 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Censky has been rehired as the chief executive officer of the American Soybean Association, replacing Ryan Findlay who stepped down in June.Censky's nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 2017, after he served as CEO at the American Soybean Association for 21 years. According to a USDA ne...
21 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced on Friday interim mitigation measures for atrazine and two related herbicides, propazine and simazine, during an agriculture event in Missouri.Atrazine is widely used in agriculture across a range of crops, primarily corn but also sugarcane and sorghum, as well as a smaller amount of use in ...
21 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A turn from very wet to very dry conditions in the central U.S. during 2020 is forecast to continue through the end of the year.The official NOAA mid-September outlook calls for no drought easing in affected areas of the Midwest and Plains over the next three months. In fact, the outlook calls for drought to expand from the western P...
18 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Archer Daniels Midland asked a federal court to drop a lawsuit alleging one of the nation's largest ethanol producers manipulated the ethanol market beginning in November 2017.In July, Omaha-based Green Plains Inc. alleged ADM conducted a scheme to illegally depress the ethanol cash spot market, in a class-action lawsuit filed in the...