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9 May 2016
By Cheri ZagurskiDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The week ended May 8 was quite productive for U.S. farmers, according to USDA's weekly Crop Progress report. Corn planting advanced by nearly 20 percentage points and soybean planting leapt ahead 15 percentage points. Corn is 64% planted, compared to 45% last week, 69% last year and a five-year a...
9 May 2016
By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Researchers have scored a major victory in agriculture's war against insect resistance. Thanks to a revolutionary new technique developed in a Harvard lab, Monsanto scientists are working to rapidly produce Bt proteins designed specifically to defeat insects that have evolved resistance...
9 May 2016
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Years before there were acronyms like VCPR and VFD, Alabama veterinarian Ken McMillan was advocating the idea that cattle producers needed an ongoing relationship with their local large-animal practitioner and could greatly benefit from regular operation checks. He felt a professional eye could h...
6 May 2016
By Claire VathProgressive Farmer Contributor Six years ago, when former principal Todd Hearne took the reins of North Vernon Elementary (NVE) School, in Jennings County, Indiana, things looked pretty dire. "Because this school was struggling, we were actually farming out any student whose parents wanted them to go to a different school," he says. "...
6 May 2016
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- State mediation services in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa are reporting a jump in farm caseloads but more on the scale of a "stream" rather than a "flood." Michelle Soll with Nebraska's Rural Response Hotline and Legal Aid said the past couple of months have seen an increase in fin...