Entries for February 2020
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29 Feb 2020
GRAIN BELT WX ROUNDUP Ohio Morning Temperature And Precipitation Summary National Weather Service Cleveland Ohio 737 AM EST Sat Feb 29 2020 Values represent highs yesterday...lows over the last 12 hours and precipitation over the last 24 hours ending at 7 AM EST/8 AM EDT. M=Missing Data T=Trace NA=Not Available : .BR CLE 0229 ES DH00/TAIRZX/DH07/TA...
28 Feb 2020
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor SAN ANTONIO (DTN) -- There was an important two-letter word in President Donald Trump's tweet last week suggesting there could be a third round of trade assistance payments. "It said 'if,'" Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told farmers at Commodity Classic here on Friday. "Let me clarify: My advice and ...
28 Feb 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Like sharks smelling blood in the water, lawyers are rushing to capitalize on the landmark dicamba injury case Bader Farms recently won against Bayer and BASF in Missouri. One law firm, Peiffer, Wolf, Carr & Kane, held a conference call Wednesday to help drum up awareness of the legal av...
28 Feb 2020
By Tregg CroninDTN Contributing Analyst On the Plains of South Dakota, where I'm writing this column, spring looks as far away as it has all winter. At last check, the National Weather Service said the Upper Midwest has 84.9% of its area covered by snow at an average depth of 5.4 inches. Admittedly, this is better than conditions a year ago when th...
28 Feb 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- University of Tennessee weed scientist Larry Steckel has spent the past two months coaxing Palmer amaranth weeds to grow from seed collected in 2019 -- so he could try to kill them. But after a labeled rate of the dicamba herbicide XtendiMax on two-inch tall weeds, in the well-controlled...