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3 Oct 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Drought conditions have prompted several of the southwestern Indiana counties where Scott Wallis farms to enact orders against burning. Meanwhile, Ashley Andersen's view in east-central Nebraska is of an increasingly soggy crop of corn and soybeans. "We had less th...
3 Oct 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Two small refiners not receiving exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard in EPA's latest round of waivers announced on Aug. 9, continue to fight the agency's rejection in federal court. At the same time, agriculture and biofuel interests continue to wait for a potential biofuels deal from the Trump ...
3 Oct 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter In my last column, I asked if anyone had any experience with Leader tractors, a name that appeared a couple different times on different tractors. This was after seeing a 1940s Leader tractor at a museum on our family vacation this summer in Branson, Missouri. I guess the answer was "No" because I didn't hear from an...
2 Oct 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter MONHEIM, Germany (DTN) -- At Bayer's annual Future of Farming Dialogue underway in Germany, company executives are touting their new pricing model, outcome-based pricing, as the potential pricing paradigm of the future. The model involves Bayer setting an expected yield outcome for a product or seed, based on a...
2 Oct 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The National Pork Producers Council, the National Milk Producers Federation and the National Corn Growers Association on Tuesday urged the Agriculture Department to move quickly to implement a bank for vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease. In a call to reporters, the groups said th...