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4 May 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- An unwelcome guest spent the winter in north Texas this year -- the sugarcane aphid. The aphid usually overwinters in Mexico and the Gulf and must journey northward during the spring to infest sorghum fields. This year it overwintered as far north as the Texas panhandle, a sizeable head ...
4 May 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Local bans on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Colorado are now unconstitutional following a pair of rulings handed down by the Colorado Supreme Court Monday. The rulings are considered good for farmers and ranchers, particularly in the northeast part of the state. Mineral rights have become a ke...
3 May 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- "It's been a wet one." That's the way DTN View From the Cab farmer Chase Brown characterized last week's conditions for corn planting at his place outside Decatur, Illinois. "It's been slightly soggy. We only planted corn on Monday and Tuesday. We were rained out Wednesday," Chase to...
3 May 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, according to a document inadvertently posted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website Monday. Monsanto was quick to take advantage of the EPA error, issuing a press statement lauding the report which was completed in October 2015. W...
3 May 2016
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor The biggest question in the cattle business today is a simple one: Where are the market lows? To know the answer would be to know the parameters this market operates within. It's not a crazy question. Lately, however, it seems as impossible a divination as choosing numbers to win a billion-dollar...