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6 May 2024
Mike Watkins, DTN Correspondent Editor's Note: Farmers and ranchers face many unique and uncontrollable stressors that can lead to anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. Too often, these issues go unacknowledged and untreated due to stigma and a scarcity of services in rural communities. Throughout May, DTN/Progressive Farmer's special...
5 May 2024
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- It's no cliche to say Quint Pottinger has an affinity for agriculture. The New Haven, Kentucky, farmer has woven the very word into the name of his business, Affinity Farms. At 35, he's grown his farming enterprise from 50 acres of row crops to nearly 3,600 acres over the past 12 years by linking with outside investors, strat...
3 May 2024
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- A proposed label for KHNP0090, a dicamba herbicide from Bayer formerly known as XtendiMax, would remove any over-the-top (OTT) application of the herbicide in soybeans and restrict its use to no later than June 12 in that crop. On May 3, EPA published a notice of receipt in the Federal Register and announced the start o...
3 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Commerce Department is unwilling to give up when it comes to placing higher import duties on phosphorus fertilizer from Morocco. The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) said Friday its leaders are again worried about the availability and price of inputs after the Commerce Department announced plans to raise tariffs on p...
3 May 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is expected to hear oral arguments at summer's end in Cody Easterday's lawsuit against Tyson Fresh Meats, alleging the company breached a contract by not paying him for selling his beef in Japan. Easterday, a former eastern Washington rancher, is serving an 11-year prison senten...