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3 May 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Stripe rust is beginning to drift into the Great Plains and Midwest, after a long journey from its breeding grounds along the Gulf of Mexico. The disease got a slower start this year, thanks to a cold winter for most of the U.S., plant pathologists told DTN. Now its signature rusty oran...
3 May 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Dear Director Kerestes, I'm sure you don't know me from a barrel full of variables and data points. Not to worry. Who could expect a busy man like yourself (no doubt up to his heinie in statistical alligators and unacceptable margins of error) to recognize one insignificant outlier in a vast array of cranky m...
3 May 2018
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Don't you dare tell Genny Haun or Kyle Krier that young people aren't returning to the farm. Both offer themselves as proof that agriculture holds hope and opportunity for the future. In fact, infusing a little optimism was a reason these two farmers held up their han...
2 May 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst With a long list of proposed tariffs by the U.S. and China hanging over markets, a team of U.S. officials will travel to Beijing this week to meet with their Chinese counterparts on Thursday. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported visiting U.S. officials will include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Econo...
2 May 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst With a long list of proposed tariffs by the U.S. and China hanging over markets, a team of U.S. officials will travel to Beijing this week to meet with their Chinese counterparts on Thursday. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported visiting U.S. officials will include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Econo...