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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...
17 Apr 2019
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Henderson Farms put two John Deere 1795 planters out into its north Alabama fields this spring mounting RTK guidance systems. "When you're pulling the planter on a drawbar with a pin, and the GPS unit is centered over the tractor, you get some planter drift," said Stuart Sanderson, who farms in partners...
16 Apr 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) said in their sixth Annual Bridge Report that there are over 47,000 structurally deficient bridges in the U.S., and cars, trucks and school buses cross these compromised structures 178 million times every day. "At the current rate, it would ta...
16 Apr 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The Trump administration is preparing to boost high-speed mobile data considered next generation, or 5G, as well as roll out a $20 billion fund to increase rural broadband access. The FCC announced the plan just days after a Senate Commerce Committee hearing criticizing the agency for its broadba...