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9 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 8. It was last updated at 4:07 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 8.**OMAHA (DTN) -- Warmer, drier weather across much of the central U.S. the first week of June allowed farmers to push ahead with planting and also aided crop emergence, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Mo...
9 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- After five long days of confusion in the industry, EPA has issued a cancellation order for three dicamba herbicides, following a federal appeals court's order to vacate their registrations on June 3.The agency will permit growers and commercial applicators to use any existing stocks of three herbicides -- XtendiMax, Engenia ...
8 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Racism is an excruciatingly uncomfortable topic in agriculture, which is basically 96% white in the racial makeup of American farmers, according to USDA's Census of Agriculture.So farm groups typically "stay in their lanes" when social unrest explodes, such as the protests that began last week after the death of George Floyd. But the...
8 Jun 2020
Believe it or not, now is a great time to hire. The agricultural supply chain has been experiencing a talent shortage for years. The good news to come out of this pandemic is the pool of available talent has expanded, and we need to capitalize on this opportunity.Many talented technicians, operators, managers, engineers and more are being furloughe...
8 Jun 2020
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Any of us can pick up a chart and say "oh, we should have bought here and sold there," but few of us -- maybe none of us -- actually do it in real time. I find the disconnect fascinating between what we should have done and what we actually did because it points out how difficult it is to see events clearly as we tru...