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31 May 2019
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent BEIJING, China (DTN) -- The impact of China's African swine fever outbreak has grown, as the disease arrived in one of the country's largest production areas while pork stockpiles are rapidly falling as well. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MOA) announced on Tuesday that an African swine fever (ASF)...
31 May 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail urea prices increased 5% compared to last month while the rest of the retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN were mixed. According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the third week of May 2019, urea had an average price of $428/ton, up $20 from the same time last month. Five other...
30 May 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- With spring rains that won't cease, farmers will be increasingly pushed over the next few weeks to weigh their prevented-planting options. The angst over planting is also higher for farmers who hedged a percentage of their 2019-20 corn ahead of planting season. Angie Setzer, vice president of grai...
30 May 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The 2015 waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule may have suffered a final defeat, as a Texas court Tuesday granted a motion for summary judgement to the American Farm Bureau Federation that sends the rule back to EPA. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled EPA violated t...
30 May 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Those yellow flowers filling fields across the Midwest aren't buttercups, baby. They are weeds and consumed in enough quantities, cressleaf groundsel, also called butterweed, can be toxic to livestock. Ohio State University weed specialist Mark Loux said the winter...