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17 May 2018
By Chris Clayton DTN Policy Editor and Jerry Hagstrom DTN Political Correspondent OMAHA (DTN) -- The House version of the farm bill could come to the floor Wednesday afternoon. With the legislation come expectations of a full-blown partisan fight over increased demands on some people who receive food aid and an effort to ward off any floor debates ...
17 May 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst If my remote control could talk (I know, you can get one that can), it would no doubt rat me out as the world's worst TV critic. More times than not, my idea of cable surfing is limited to the predictable waves of "Pawn Stars," "America's Got Talent" and countless reruns of "The Big Bang Theory." Yet there a...
17 May 2018
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor (BAS/AG)© Copyright 2018 DTN/The Progressive Farmer. All rights reserved.
16 May 2018
By Richard SmithDTN Japan Correspondent TOKYO (DTN) -- Asked how U.S.-China talks on trade tariffs affect U.S. beef exports to China, U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) international program assistant Vice-President Greg Hanes used the "chicken-and-egg thing" metaphor. Chinese "buyers don't want to commit to specific volumes, because the price is ...
16 May 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- For many years, advances in crop technology have focused on specific production traits like herbicide tolerance or insecticide production. Photosynthesis -- the driving force behind all plant life -- was long viewed as too vast and complex to be effectively altered by genetic engineering...