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15 Mar 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- Truckers who haul agriculture products and livestock have been granted another three-month reprieve from a rule mandating the implementation of electronic logging devices. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Tuesday announced "additional steps ...
15 Mar 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst When coal miners sent caged songbirds down mineshafts to indicate the presence of deadly carbon monoxide if their chirping stopped, the little birds' deaths occurred somewhere dark, cold and drippingly damp. In contrast, if a wheat plant dies, its death probably occurs somewhere sunny, dry and dusty -- maybe t...
15 Mar 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- If you have a hankering for a sci-fi horror flick this summer, skip the theater and head straight to your soybean field. There, tiny parasitic wasps called Aphelinus certus will likely be flitting through your field, piercing soybean aphids with their stingers and inserting their eggs in...
14 Mar 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA has officially ended a rule on organic livestock and poultry practices that the Obama administration sought to implement at the tail end of the administration's tenure last year. The Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) rule would have required a certain amount of space -- both ind...
14 Mar 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Justin Knopf's farm in central Kansas went 120 days without a drop of moisture this winter. Now his winter wheat crop is waking up, looking for water, and finding little to none. "The Southern Plains drought is intense," said DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist Bryce Anderson. "Many stations in...