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Pigweed Punches Back

28 Feb 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- University of Tennessee weed scientist Larry Steckel has spent the past two months coaxing Palmer amaranth weeds to grow from seed collected in 2019 -- so he could try to kill them. But after a labeled rate of the dicamba herbicide XtendiMax on two-inch tall weeds, in the well-controlled...

EPA Science Board Directive Defeated

27 Feb 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal court has set aside an EPA directive banning scientists from serving on scientific advisory boards if they hold agency grants. The ruling leaves attorneys on both sides of the case questioning the next steps. On Feb. 10, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled the...

Kub's Den

27 Feb 2020
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Imagine you are a freight provider -- a trucker, say -- and the demand for your services is so poor that the market's freight rates have not only dropped to an all-time low, they've actually gone negative. You are effectively paying your customers just to give your freight-hauling equipment something to do. Th...

Virus Raises Market Worries

27 Feb 2020
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (DTN) -- Commodity experts at the International Sweetener Colloquium here on Tuesday signaled that the announcements of the spread of the coronavirus and the fall of the stock market are making them uncertain about the future. Following the stock decline and concerns about the corona...

Cash Market Moves

26 Feb 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The start of the 2019 navigation season in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) was late and drawn out. The first tow didn't make it to St. Paul, Minnesota, until April 24, 2019, when Motor Vessel Aaron F. Barrett, pushing 12 barges, finally locked through Lock and Dam 2 near Hastings on that date. The average da...
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