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11 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 8:08 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, June 3. It was last updated at 11:26 a.m. CDT on Thursday, June 4.**ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision Wednesday vacating the registrations of three dicamba herbicides, XtendiMax (Bayer), Engenia (BASF) and FeXapan (Corteva). The...
11 Jun 2020
GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Tuesday credited the Department of Justice for beginning "sweeping initiatives" against the country's four largest meatpackers.Speaking to reporters during a weekly call, Grassley said a DOJ investigation into packers "is a very important step to protect independent producers, but more must be...
11 Jun 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Reid Thompson was hanging onto his cap and anything else he could pin down as winds came gusting through the Midwest on Tuesday. Tropical Storm Cristobal's long reach was just one more strange challenge to the 2020 crop season.Nearly 820 miles due south and sitting much closer to the Gulf, Ryan Jenkins was finding blessed rel...
10 Jun 2020
With the market's recent drunken binge of events -- COVID-19, slaughterhouses shutting down, cattle backing up and slim feedlot placements -- I'd like to think that we could rely on history to help us see clearly into the current market. History is a beautiful, faithful tool when studying psychological patterns and human behavior. Unfortunately (or...
9 Jun 2020
In their annual U.S. Wheat (USW) Crop Quality Report, it was noted that the 2019 hard red winter (HRW) wheat crop received abundant moisture during the planting and growing season throughout the Great Plains, while swings in temperature and severe weather occurred in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and Montana. "Unexpectedly high yields resulted in low...