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15 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor NEW ORLEANS, La. (DTN) -- Farm labor remains the top issue for Zippy Duvall as president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, but he recognizes the difficulty of trying to find a solution that involves foreign guest workers when the federal government is shut down in a fight over a southern border wall. "It's...
15 Jan 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit against dicamba last week, but left open a door for the plaintiffs to expedite a new lawsuit in 2019. The original lawsuit, which was filed by four farm and environmental groups in 2017, argued that the EPA's 2016 registration o...
14 Jan 2019
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor Editor's Note: This story was updated to include grain estimates from private analysis firm Gro Intelligence. DTN partnered with that firm for the 2018 Digital Yield Tour in August. ** MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- As the partial government shutdown enters its 21st day, most employees responsible for comp...
14 Jan 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst In case you've been away from the news lately, there will be no USDA reports of Dec. 1 Grain Stocks, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), Winter Wheat and Canola Seedings, Rice Stocks or Cotton Ginnings on Friday, Jan. 11. USDA's ability to put out information has been squelched by the powers that ...
14 Jan 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Kim Summers was not a fan of the weather this past growing season. Summers, along with her husband, Mark Brunk, grows and sells forage near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. They saw the near-constant rains severely limit the amount of hay they could produce. "We had over 70 inches of precipitation in 2018,"...