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5 Jul 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst The U.S winter wheat harvest has officially passed its halfway mark, according to the Sunday night observations accumulated in the weekly Crop Progress report from USDA. But in the western states where hard red winter wheat is grown, we might consider harvest to be somewhere around the three-fourths mark, with...
3 Jul 2018
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite another week of scattered reports of flood and hail damage to crops, national good-to-excellent condition ratings for corn and soybeans fell only slightly last week, according to the USDA National Ag Statistics Service's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. NASS estimated that 76% of corn was in good-to-...
3 Jul 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA is expected to ask a federal judge in New York to rule in its favor on a lawsuit challenging the delay of the 2015 waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule, according to a document filed last week announcing plans to file for summary judgement. Attorneys general of 10 states and the Distric...
3 Jul 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Environmental and conservation groups tout the Endangered Species Act as a success, while opponents of the law point to a low species recovery rate and added restrictions to landowners as reasons to reform the law. A U.S. senator has unveiled legislation to do just that. On Monday, Sen. John Barrasso,...
2 Jul 2018
By Alan BruglerDTN Contributing Analyst The March USDA Planting Intentions report is a valuable tool for producers even if it misses some things, because it gives us early warnings about acreage decisions that might harm us. The June Acreage report is valuable because it trues-up the numbers and tells us what producers decided and what Mother Natur...