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20 Aug 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst In my July 29 column, "Flooding Turns Mississippi River Into a Sandbox," I discussed the shoaling left behind on nearly the entire Mississippi River System by the 2019 flooding. I noted that the Army Corp of Engineers Rock Island District said that, normally, dredging costs them $2 million, but this year, they...
20 Aug 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst In my July 29 column, "Flooding Turns Mississippi River Into a Sandbox," I discussed the shoaling left behind on nearly the entire Mississippi River System by the 2019 flooding. I noted that the Army Corp of Engineers Rock Island District said that, normally, dredging costs them $2 million, but this year, they...
19 Aug 2019
By Matt WildeDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor Images captured 5,000 feet above Greg Armes' cotton fields are more than just pretty pictures. The high-resolution photos taken by Ceres Imaging, based in Oakland, California, are intricate and colorful. The New Home, Texas, farmer often looks at them on his iPad or iPhone as he's spraying...
19 Aug 2019
By Todd Neeley DTN Staff Reporter and Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Has President Donald Trump turned a 180 on his publicly stated support for ethanol and the Renewable Fuel Standard? It's a question ethanol and agriculture industry officials are asking after reports surfaced this week that EPA's decision late last week to gran...
19 Aug 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst Not many minutes after 11 a.m. CDT Monday morning, my phone was ringing as I was scrambling to put together a webinar to explain why and how USDA just estimated a 13.9 billion bushel (bb) corn crop on the heels of the wettest planting period in recent history. Things were too frantic to answer the phone, but I later ...