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10 Aug 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Congress has opened an investigation into why a scientist at the National Cancer Institute allegedly withheld information from an international cancer research body that showed the widely used herbicide glyphosate did not cause cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, conclud...
10 Aug 2017
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Andrew Barsness grew up in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, two hours north of his grandparent's 280-acre grain farm near Hoffman. He visited regularly, but he never considered becoming a farmer. Then life took a turn. While Barsness was attending the University of Minnesota in 2010, his grandfather Harry Wes...
10 Aug 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor MONTERREY, Mexico (DTN) -- The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement is the dominant topic among Mexico's business leaders, and weighs heavily on how they plan for the future. Ricardo Elizondo Garza runs a small feed mill just north of Monterrey in Apodaca, Mexico -- about two hours south of ...
9 Aug 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor PROGRESO, Texas (DTN) -- Moving five at a time, grain trucks with double trailers pull out of the Grupo Chapa Quiroga grain elevator on the Texas side of the border and start hauling U.S. corn across the Progreso International Bridge just a stone's throw from the grain company's weigh station. Since 2011, Grupo...
9 Aug 2017
By Virginia H. HarrisProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor Josh Eilers, 28, walked an improbable path to selling prime, quality-grade Wagyu beef to restaurants and farmers markets in Austin, Texas. Born and raised in Texas, a 17-year-old Eilers set out to earn the tan beret worn by the U.S. Army's elite 75th Ranger Regiment. Completing a two-mont...