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5 Jun 2020
Dan Crummett, Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Over the past 15 years, Tom, Dan and Ben Griffin have been partnering with conservationists to improve grazing on their two fifth-generation Texas ranches, parlaying brush-control programs into better shortgrass pastures, all the while fighting drought and natural succession of mesquite and cedar...
5 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...
5 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farm groups and various officials continue to press USDA to broaden the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) as they highlight agricultural products left out of the program.USDA announced on Thursday that the department already has approved more than $545 million in payments. Since starting signup on May 26, USDA has received m...
5 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Of the 40 locations DTN contacted that showed offers for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) for the week ended June 4, posted offers were steady to lower and averaged $138 per ton, down $3 versus the prior week.The cash corn price versus one week ago hasn't changed much, but DDG prices remain under pressure as feeders are still l...
3 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices dipped lower in the fourth week of May 2020, according to prices for eight major fertilizers tracked by DTN.While no fertilizer has moved a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more in either direction, a majority of fertilizers were lower for the first time in ten weeks.Six fertilizers declined ...