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8 Jun 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and ranking member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said early Thursday that their committee will mark up a new farm bill on Wednesday, June 13. The markup of the five-year bill will be held at 9:30 a.m. in Room 328A of the Russell S...
8 Jun 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, MD. (DTN) -- Today, Bayer became the sole owner of Monsanto. Both companies will continue to operate as separate entities for another two months, while Bayer sheds the $9 billion in assets regulators required it divest. Only then will the Monsanto name be retired, and the new Bayer emerge. What will i...
7 Jun 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices finally began to decline the fourth week of May 2018 as spring application wrapped up, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. After weeks of prices for a few fertilizers moving slightly lower and then rising again, this is the first week most fertilizer prices are lowe...
7 Jun 2018
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- It is the year for weather whiplash. Worries about getting the crop in the ground have been replaced with the next nagging concern: When will it rain again? Ohio-based Genny Haun and Kansas-reared Kyle Krier grew up on the farms where they work and have witnessed seas...
7 Jun 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, MD (DTN) -- As 2,4-D and dicamba off-target injury reports start to trickle in across the South and Midwest, weed scientists and regulators are urging growers to stay on label. Texas cotton growers are seeing more 2,4-D damage to cotton than is normal this time of year, Texas A&M Extension Cotton Spe...