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7 Oct 2016
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist What is your goal for fall tillage? Is it to process residue, blacken the soil or break compaction layer? Perhaps you want to incorporate fertilizer and soil amendments like compost, gypsum, lime or manure. Maybe you need to incorporate cover crop seed. The task determines the tool to select and in som...
7 Oct 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Bayer CropSciences' decision to drop its fight to keep Belt SC insecticide on the market comes at a time when one Midsouth entomologist said farmers can ill-afford to lose another weapon to fight pests. University of Arkansas entomologist Gus Lorenz said it was a particularly difficult pest season in...
7 Oct 2016
By Chris Clayton\DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A Chinese national caught stealing transgenic corn seeds has been sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets. The U.S. Justice Department announced Mo Hailong, also known as Robert Mo, 46, was sentenced out of the U.S. District Court for Southern Iow...
6 Oct 2016
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor BANFF, Alberta (DTN) -- Two years ago, McDonald's Corporation made news at the annual meeting of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association by announcing it would begin buying sustainable beef by 2016. Bob Langert, then head of the company's environmental and sustainability operations division and...
6 Oct 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter Editor's note: This story was updated with a statement from Dow AgroSciences at 12:50 p.m. CDT. The original story was posted at 8:38 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 5. ** ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Entomologists are sounding the alarm that Cry1F, Dow AgroScience's and DuPont Pioneer's aboveground Herculex I trait, is...