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30 Aug 2017
By Russ Quinn DTN Staff Reporter And Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter FAIRFAX, Mo. (DTN) -- Dicamba dominated the conversation at the University of Missouri Graves-Chapple Research Center's field day last week. The annual event is typically devoted to various agronomy research underway at the center, but this year, MU experts spent much of the da...
30 Aug 2017
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- All across America, family farm work can be summarized simply as "teamwork." That's the way it was last week for DTN View From the Cab farmers Brent and Lisa Judisch at their place outside Cedar Fall, Iowa. Brent attended a crop tour of the Western Corn Belt last week. "It's amazing h...
29 Aug 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst After receiving complaints from shippers about CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSX), the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) wrote a letter July 27 to CSX President and CEO Hunter Harrison stating its concern about service problems that had resulted from "ongoing operating changes" underway at CSX. The STB has...
29 Aug 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn, soybean and wheat inspections maintained a bullish pace again in this week's export inspections report, according to DTN Analyst Todd Hultman. Corn weekly export inspections were 31.7 mb (805,756 mt) for the week ending Thursday, Aug. 24. This is below 56.0 mb for the same week a year ago. Inspections...
29 Aug 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers and livestock producers in eastern Texas are still getting heavy rains Monday in areas flooded over the weekend when Hurricane Harvey made landfall. Producers and others on social media posted videos and photos throughout the weekend of cattle wading through the water, or the center of to...