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3 May 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Scott Wallis is a nuts-and-bolts row-crop farmer. The Princeton, Indiana, farmer loves everything about making a crop of corn and soybeans come to life and coaxing every bushel he can from a plot of land. There is something he gets more charged up about than agrono...
3 May 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter WICHITA (DTN) -- Crop scouts produced an average estimated yield of 47.6 bushels per acre (bpa), up from 35.2 bpa last year, on the second day of the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Tour. Scouts stopped at 200 fields in southwestern and south-central Kansas. Tuesday, the tour explored centra...
2 May 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor CLOVIS, N.M. (DTN) -- Food may be the next frontier in research on a wide array of potentially toxic chemicals increasingly showing up in drinking water and groundwater nationally. Art Schaap and Fred Stone milk dairy cows more than 2,000 miles from each other, but right now, neither one of them can sell their...
1 May 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA continues to find no human health risks associated with the use of glyphosate and the herbicide is not a carcinogen, the agency said in its latest review. However, the agency did acknowledge glyphosate poses some ecological risks. "While the agency did not identify public health risks in the 2...
1 May 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- The domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) average spot price from the 40 locations DTN contacted moved lower again this week versus the prior week, down $3 at $125 per ton for the week ended May 2. In the past three weeks, the DTN average DDG price has dropped a total of $14 per ton. DDG price...