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10 Jan 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Illinois (DTN) -- Think of soybean cyst nematode (SCN) like blood pressure. Doctors take blood pressure readings and based on the numbers, decide if and how to manage the problem. Similarly, The SCN Coalition, a diverse group of University researchers, Extension specialists a...
10 Jan 2019
By Greg D. HorstmeierDTN Editor-in-Chief OMAHA (DTN) -- Anyone wondering how long, wet and miserable the 2018 fall harvest was only has to peer at the results of the latest DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agriculture Confidence Index. Results from farmers surveyed in early December saw the index drop more than 50 points, from the record-setting 164.8 ...
10 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal judge in Iowa has thrown out a state law Iowa lawmakers created to try to block undercover activist investigations into the state's livestock operations. The 2012 law, coming after at least a couple of widely publicized investigations into hog operations, made it illegal to come on a li...
9 Jan 2019
By Karen McMahonProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor RAMONA, S.D. (DTN) -- Leroy Erickson got his new farm shop just in time for his 70th birthday. For decades, the Ramona, South Dakota, farmer used an old barn with no heat and a dirt floor to store tools and repair machinery. He always wanted a new shop but could never pull the trigger on it. Fi...
9 Jan 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As the EPA starts down the path of rewriting the waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule, the federal government may be laying the legal groundwork to defend the rule when it comes to the role groundwater plays in the Clean Water Act. Though the newly proposed WOTUS rule would exempt groundwater d...