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28 Aug 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst The slow progress and overall lateness of grain crops persists into the late summer of 2019, with the plants never really catching up after their inauspicious start. As of Aug. 25, we've got the nation's corn crop reaching its dented stage at 19 percentage points behind the five-year average pace; soybeans se...
28 Aug 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- While farmers admire the latest agriculture machinery this week, leaders of national commodity groups at the Farm Progress Show are talking about demand and looking for the upside in pending trade deals. Bill Gordon, vice president of the American Soybean Association and a farmer from Wor...
27 Aug 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The White House Office of Management and Budget showed EPA how to account for biofuel gallons lost to small-refinery waivers, but the EPA ignored the OMB's suggestions, interagency review documents show. Documents posted to regulations.gov on the 2020 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes show reviewers of ...
27 Aug 2019
By Matt WildeProgressive Farmer Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- More than 100 people from across the nation recently got an up-close look at the latest in conservation practices aimed at improving water quality from Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico. Participants on the day-long Conservation in Action tour, hosted by the Conservation Technology Information Cen...
27 Aug 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (DTN) -- President Donald Trump and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Sunday that the two countries have reached a trade deal that will involve large Japanese purchases of U.S. corn and wheat. In a report Saturday, Nikkei, a Japanese news organization, reported that Japan had agr...