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16 May 2019
By Matthew Wilde Progressive Farmer Crops Editor MESERVEY, Iowa (DTN) -- Midwest farmers are doing the unthinkable as the corn-planting window slams shut. Some growers are switching intended soybean acres to corn, or at least thinking about it. Usually the opposite happens in mid-to-late-May if corn isn't in the ground due to yield-loss potential. ...
16 May 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Scientists have found populations of European corn borer in Canada that are fully resistant to the Bt trait Cry1F, sold under the brand name Herculex I. So far, the discoveries are limited to the Maritimes region, specifically Nova Scotia -- where single-trait Cry1F hybrids were used. Bu...
15 May 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Leave that 4-inch soda can in the truck -- some of the weeds and cover crop cover in the Midwest right now will require a yardstick to measure. The persistent cold, wet weather dogging much of the corn and soybean belt this spring has kept many farmers from applying their usual early s...
15 May 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The hits keep coming for Bayer's Roundup glyphosate herbicide, as a California jury on Monday awarded $2.055 billion in damages to a couple that has battled cancer after decades of using the product. It's the largest of three awards juries have handed out since the company acquired Monsanto last year....
15 May 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Hoeven, R-N.D., said Tuesday he hopes that within "a week or so" the Trump administration will announce a program of trade aid to farmers due to the Chinese tariffs on U.S. farm products. Hoeven also said the trade aid could...