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18 Sep 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- With rainfall totals in parts of North Carolina reaching as much as 36 inches since Thursday due to Hurricane Florence, a big chunk of rural North Carolina was largely marooned Monday with more than 1,000 roads closed in the state. Still, North Carolina Farm Bureau President Larry Wooten noted th...
18 Sep 2018
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In its first soybean harvest report of the season, USDA's National Ag Statistics Service estimated that 6% of the U.S. crop was harvested as of Sunday, Sept. 16, 3 percentage points ahead of the five-year average, according to the agency's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. This year's s...
17 Sep 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Each fall, when Lucy convinces Charlie Brown that he is supporting the great Thanksgiving tradition of kicking the football, we plead with him not to do it. Of course, Lucy wins out and Chuck ends up on his back, betrayed again by Lucy's dirty trick of pulling the ball away. No matter how many times Charlie tries and fail...
17 Sep 2018
By Bryce AndersonDTN Senior Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- It's the northern Midwest's turn in the spotlight for potential harvest delays from heavy rainfall. Moderate to heavy rain is forecast during most of Monday through Saturday, September 17-22, with amounts exceeding 2 inches, and reaching to more than five inches. The main area for this he...
17 Sep 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor SAN FRANCISCO (DTN) -- Just a few blocks from the commotion and crowds at the Global Climate Action Summit, biofuel advocates gathered Thursday to champion more low-carbon fuel standards that could take the country's biofuels industry in new directions. While the climate summit focused on all the various ways s...