Headline News
RECENT NEWS
29 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- As June starts to melt into July, summer insects' favorite buffets are in season: fields of growing crops.Soybean fields appear to be at the top of the menu this month, with a growing number of agronomists and farmers reporting sightings of soybean gall midge, thistle caterpillars and Japanese beetles in soybean fields in th...
26 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Some more details are emerging on Bayer's $400 million settlement for dicamba injury claims, announced Wednesday amid a larger $1 billion settlement mostly focused on glyphosate litigation.Bayer agreed to pay up to $300 million to soybean producers who suffered yield losses to dicamba damage at any time from 2015 through 202...
26 Jun 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The rest of the world may be debating over whether to postpone summer events, but spray season doesn't wait. The challenge is to find a window amid weather events to fit in all the passes."Anyone that needs me knows to look in the sprayer for the coming month," said Ryan Jenkins, Jay, Florida. "This time of year, I'm either s...
26 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 8:35 p.m. CDT on Thursday, June 25. It was last updated at 11:17 a.m. CDT on Friday, June 26.**ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Late on Thursday, June 25, a panel of judges on the Ninth Circuit denied a motion by BASF to stay and recall their June 3 mandate vacating three dicamba registrations, including BASF's Engenia ...
26 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Bayer has reached a multi-billion-dollar, wide-reaching settlement agreement on Wednesday to end Roundup cancer lawsuits, dicamba drift litigation and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCB, water litigation.Most notably, the company announced in a news release a total payment of between $8.8 billion and $9.6 billion to "resolve current a...