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18 Apr 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- We've all seen them -- the startling pictures of giant Palmer amaranth plants towering over soybean fields, with their long, spiky seed heads jutting toward the sky. But by the time you find that monster in your fields, it's too late to control it. The coming weeks are prime time for spo...
18 Apr 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (DTN) -- The Trump administration shouldn't grant more than three dozen small-refiner exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard at a time when farmers are already feeling the impacts of low commodity prices due to lost trade, the head of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association said Wednesday. S...
18 Apr 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Animal rights groups filed a lawsuit on Monday to stop Iowa's new ag trespass law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds in March, just months after a federal court ruled the state's previous ag fraud law was unconstitutional. In January 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa in Des Moin...
17 Apr 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- Congress appropriating funds for Midwest levee repair doesn't necessarily mean that's where the money would go if the Army Corps of Engineers and the White House use cost-benefit analysis to decide which levees to rebuild first. That was one of the key takeaways for four U.S. senators wh...
17 Apr 2019
By Scott WilliamsDTN Entomologist A drawn-out harvest prevented many farmers from completing fall fieldwork. That may increase the susceptibility of many fields to one of our perennial pests, the black cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon). And, if the winds blow just right, they'll be paying your fields a visit before you know it. WHAT TO LOOK FOR A drawn-out...