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27 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The roll-out of new dicamba herbicides last year came with a complex new vocabulary. Terms like "volatility" and "inversion" swirled around and confused many. Yet at least one term -- spray particle drift -- was familiar to farmers, easy to understand and, most important, mostly under an...
27 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A group of Arkansas farmers had little more than a week of access to dicamba before the state Supreme Court intervened on Wednesday, April 25. Nearly 200 farmers had gained temporary access to new dicamba herbicides after three judges in Clay, Mississippi and Phillips counties issued tem...
26 Apr 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Fertilizer Columnist OMAHA (DTN) -- According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the third week of April 2018, prices continue to be mostly on the higher side. However, there are signs that perhaps this is finally changing. For the first time in several months, multiple fertilizers were actually lower in price compared...
26 Apr 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Waivers granted to small refineries in 2016 and 2017 may have prevented about 1.6 billion gallons of biofuels from entering the fuel supply, according to a new analysis of EPA (https://www.epa.gov/…) performed by the Renewable Fuels Association. The EPA has drawn fire for a seeming lack of transparen...
26 Apr 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Republican and Democratic senators praised Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Tuesday for his advocacy on agriculture within the Trump administration, but urged him to be a stronger voice. In an opening statement at a hearing entitled "The State of Rural America," Senate Agricultur...