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30 Jul 2020
All basis, like all politics, is local. A spring wheat farmer in Montana probably doesn't care that corn basis at the Gulf of Mexico is 57 cents over the nearby futures contract. And a cotton farmer in Oklahoma probably doesn't care that Pennsylvania dairies are paying 15 cents under for their corn. Here, where I am in the Western Corn Belt, we ten...
29 Jul 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Weed scientists are officially confirming the presence of dicamba-resistant Palmer amaranth in Tennessee, where the dicamba-tolerant Xtend trait has dominated cotton and soybean acreage for several years.Scientists at the University of Tennessee, the University of Arkansas and Texas Tech University have finished greenhouse t...
29 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- As meatpacking and poultry plants have been forced to remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic, a USDA waiver program implemented in 2018 allowing poultry plants to operate at higher line speeds is putting workers in jeopardy, a new lawsuit filed in federal appeals court Tuesday alleges.In 2014, FSIS adopted a regulation limiting lin...
29 Jul 2020
Cattle producers from one end of the country to the other are convinced their markets were long-ago hijacked by the "Big Four." Namely, they blame Cargill, JBS, National Beef and Tyson -- who collectively control more than 80% of the U.S. slaughter market for beef -- for pricing inequities.Confidentiality agreements these buyers operate under are a...
28 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A trial to determine whether some Missouri River basin farmers will be compensated by the federal government for repeated flooding in the past decade is in the second week of an expected three-week run before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.The case, Ideker Farms v the United States continued on Monday, focused on the possible hundr...