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15 Aug 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter KEARNEY, Neb. (DTN) -- How livestock grazing management affects wildlife habitat depends on many complex factors, including the type and location of grassland, the productivity of the range and even precipitation. Certain practices that might be positive for wildlife in one situation may not be so good in other grass...
14 Aug 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter MINNEAPOLIS (DTN) -- The 2015 waters of the United States, or WOTUS, now is in effect in 26 states after a federal judge in South Carolina issued a nationwide injunction on a recent EPA rule that delayed the implementation of the Obama-era regulation. The legal wrangling that has occurred since Obama's EPA finalized...
14 Aug 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The recent one-year extension to the electronic logging device (ELD) waiver for livestock haulers and live insect haulers recently passed by the Senate has caused mixed reactions throughout the trucking industry. The Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) and the Trucking Alliance (Alliance) have be...
14 Aug 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA's bump in estimated 2018 corn yields and production on Friday provided a shot in the profitability arm for DTN's hypothetical 50-million-gallon ethanol plant in South Dakota. Ethanol futures have moved to the lowest point since early January as concerns of growing supplies and seasonal demand wea...
13 Aug 2018
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:03 a.m. It was last updated at 11:58 a.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA pegged the national average corn yield at 178.4 bushels per acre (bpa), higher than last month's 174 bpa estimate and the average pre-report estimate. That bumped up estimated production to 14.59 billion bushels, 356 million bushel...