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15 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Spending a day at your state fair looking through the pens of livestock and eating your favorite fair food doesn't appear to be in the cards this summer for many. Several states across the country have cancelled their traditional state fairs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The same applies to large farm shows and expos. As the dates o...
12 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The agricultural industry was rocked by a federal appeals court ruling that vacated the registrations of three dicamba herbicides last week.Growers would do well to keep their eye on a second major herbicide lawsuit in the months to come.The plaintiffs who brought the dicamba lawsuit to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Nint...
12 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Rattan Lal, a soil scientist at Ohio State University, was named the 2020 World Food Prize laureate on Thursday with the prize citing Lal "for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change."Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary o...
11 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...
11 Jun 2020
GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Tuesday credited the Department of Justice for beginning "sweeping initiatives" against the country's four largest meatpackers.Speaking to reporters during a weekly call, Grassley said a DOJ investigation into packers "is a very important step to protect independent producers, but more must be...