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19 Aug 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Improving broadband internet services to all rural areas is an extremely complex task with no easy answers. With more people working from home and children learning remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation has shown this year how much work is still needed to fill in the gaps for something that is almost required by mo...
18 Aug 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- On Monday, three dicamba registrants lost one of their last remaining legal options to overturn a federal court's mandate ending the registrations of three dicamba herbicides.On June 3, a panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision to vacate three dicamba herbicides, XtendiMax (...
18 Aug 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Donald Trump approved Iowa's request for an expedited request for a disaster declaration, following last week's devastating derecho that inflicted damage to crops, grain storage and other agriculture infrastructure.Trump made the remarks to reporters Monday morning in Washington as he was leaving for a campaign stop in Minn...
18 Aug 2020
This past weekend, I had the good fortune of attending the Iowa Governor's Charity Steer Show, held in Ames, Iowa. The event is put on by the Iowa Beef Industry Council and the Iowa Cattleman's Association, and money raised goes to benefit the Ronald McDonald Houses of Iowa. Given the adverse financial climate for beef producers in 2020, I couldn't...
17 Aug 2020
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- As winds hitting 100 miles per hour turned grain bins into twisted pieces of steel Monday in portions of three Midwestern states, Stephanie Voxland's phone blew up. Harvest, after all, won't stop because grain facilities are damaged or destroyed."My phone started ringing as the storm was going on -- that's a true story," said ...