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10 Dec 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ARLINGTON, Va. (DTN) -- Three consecutive years of off-target dicamba injury is taking its toll on the agricultural industry. Leo Reed even has a name for it: dicamba fatigue. "States recognize that both we and the [EPA], we're all suffering from dicamba fatigue -- staffing shortages and issues and processing ...
9 Dec 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The ugly trifecta of 2019 -- late planting, high-moisture corn and plentiful rain and snow -- has left many farmers facing unharvested cornfields into December and possibly beyond. Of all the agronomic sins this year has forced onto the landscape, cornfields left standing deep into the w...
9 Dec 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst It was a privilege to speak to the members at the Arkansas Farm Bureau convention Wednesday (12/4/19) and I had to admit from the outset that there is simply no good way to spin the big crop surpluses and low crop prices at the end of 2019. It's a tough grain market every way we look at it. USDA's ending corn stocks ...
9 Dec 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In a sign that U.S. agriculture may start to see greater access to China, the Chinese Finance Ministry on Friday announced it would start excluding some soybeans, pork and other agricultural goods from tariffs. In a posted statement on its website, the ministry stated due to domestic needs, Chine...
6 Dec 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA is set to open sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program on Dec. 9 to include both general and continuous enrollments, the Farm Service Agency announced in a press conference on Thursday. There are 22 million acres enrolled in CRP. The 2018 farm bill raised the cap to 27 million acres. Bradley...