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22 Oct 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Thursday signed a joint agency agreement aimed at educating Americans on the impacts and importance of reducin...
22 Oct 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst I know time flies and early August doesn't seem that long ago when December Kansas City wheat prices were challenging $6.20 a bushel with help from dry weather concerns in Europe. Europe's wheat production did suffer this year, 9% lower according to USDA, and production is also estimated 18% lower in Russia and 13% lower ...
19 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- Marty Matlock sees the efforts to address climate change, global population rise and agricultural sustainability as the need to further intensify food production on current cropland while better explaining the story of modern food production to consumers. Matlock, a professor of biological a...
19 Oct 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to move higher slowly, according to prices tracked by DTN for the second week of October 2018. For the fifth week in a row, all eight major fertilizers were higher compared to a month earlier. None of the eight, however, were up a significant amount. DAP had an average...
19 Oct 2018
By Bryce AndersonDTN Senior Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- The weather recordkeeping winter season, from December 2018 through February 2019, is about five weeks away. Ahead of winter, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is calling for above-normal temperatures over the northern and western U.S. -- including the Plains...