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10 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Western Lake Erie is expected to have a more moderate algae bloom this summer after a drier spring in the region, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, announced in its forecast on Thursday.A toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie in August 2014 contaminated Toledo drinking water supplies. About 500,000 residents were...
10 Jul 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- As July gets underway, state regulators, weed scientists, agronomists and farmers are reporting off-target dicamba injury to crops and plants for the fifth summer in a row.This year, some of the most widespread symptomology and crop injury is being reported in Iowa, where scientists told DTN that weather conditions, court ru...
10 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A new complaint filed with USDA this week alleges major meatpacking companies have discriminated against minority workers by not taking all adequate steps to protect them during the COVID-19 pandemic.Food Chain Workers Alliance, Rural Community Workers Alliance, HEAL Food Alliance, American Friends Service Committee -- Iowa, Idaho Or...
9 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- After attention and lobbying from livestock groups, USDA on Wednesday announced the first major foot-and-mouth vaccine purchase to store in the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank.USDA is spending $27.1 million with two animal health companies, Biogenesis Bago and Boehringer Ingelheim. In a news release, Boehr...
9 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Reflecting that COVID-19 can strike anyone almost anywhere, a spokesperson for the American Farm Bureau Federation shared news Wednesday that the group's national president, Georgia farmer Zippy Duvall, had tested positive for COVID-19.Duvall was experiencing fever and cough systems when he was tested. "He is at home in quarantine an...