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29 Jun 2020
Succession planning in the family business often focuses on the operational leader -- the person directing outside activities or making decisions about logistics, labor, planting or harvesting. The theory is that when something happens to the leader, without an immediate takeover by a competent replacement, the business will struggle with indecisio...
29 Jun 2020
The Senate Agriculture Committee on June 24 advanced a bill, via a voice vote, reauthorizing the U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act (USGSRA) for another five years. The bill was widely supported by agricultural groups and exporters who depend on the reauthorization to provide structure for the entire grain inspection system. The existing auth...
29 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- As June starts to melt into July, summer insects' favorite buffets are in season: fields of growing crops.Soybean fields appear to be at the top of the menu this month, with a growing number of agronomists and farmers reporting sightings of soybean gall midge, thistle caterpillars and Japanese beetles in soybean fields in th...
26 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Some more details are emerging on Bayer's $400 million settlement for dicamba injury claims, announced Wednesday amid a larger $1 billion settlement mostly focused on glyphosate litigation.Bayer agreed to pay up to $300 million to soybean producers who suffered yield losses to dicamba damage at any time from 2015 through 202...
26 Jun 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The rest of the world may be debating over whether to postpone summer events, but spray season doesn't wait. The challenge is to find a window amid weather events to fit in all the passes."Anyone that needs me knows to look in the sprayer for the coming month," said Ryan Jenkins, Jay, Florida. "This time of year, I'm either s...