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29 Jul 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst It doesn't seem that long ago Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in August, followed by Hurricane Irma in September. That was in 2017, and in both cases cotton production was lost. In some cases, even bales already harvested were ruined in the storms. Early 2018 saw cotton plantings increase to 14.1 million acres from 12.7 m...
26 Jul 2019
By Charles Wallace DTN Contributor FARGO, N.D. (DTN) -- The 2019 Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Spring Wheat and Durum Tour ended Thursday with an overall average spring wheat yield of 43.1 bushels per acre (bpa), up from 41.1 bpa last year, but still below the five-year average of 44.6 bpa. This year, the tour's 62 crop scouts stopped at 356 sp...
26 Jul 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The 2019 crop season has had just about everything thrown at it -- so why not add a little irony to the list? After a spring of continuous, slow-moving, widespread storm systems that flooded fields and stalled planting, many farmers now find their crops are in need of, well, a little mor...
26 Jul 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Jennie Schmidt is an old pro at stewarding herbicide use in grain crops alongside sensitive specialty crops and organic fields. On her operation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, she grows genetically modified corn and soybeans and has been a vocal advocate for the use of biotechnology...
25 Jul 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Black smoke continues to roll off an outdoor soybean pile for the tenth day in a row at a Gavilon grain elevator surrounded by floodwaters in northwest Missouri. The area between the Missouri River and Interstate 29 around Phelps City, Missouri, remains flooded by an unplugged levee breach on the ...