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7 Sep 2023
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Add Iowa to the list of states where populations of waterhemp resistant to the herbicide dicamba now reside. In a Sept. 5 post on the Iowa State University Integrated Crop Management News website, ISU Extension field agronomist Meaghan Anderson reported the university had been notified by Bayer on Sept. 1 that suspected...
7 Sep 2023
DECATUR, Ill., (DTN) -- As Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke at the Farm Progress Show late last month, he highlighted the ways farmers could generate more income from their operations. Using a whiteboard, the secretary pointed to the 141 climate-smart pilot projects, noting they cut across "every major commodity and every state in the count...
6 Sep 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Carbon pipelines continue to struggle to gain approval from state regulators. As first reported by South Dakota media, the state's three-person Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday unanimously voted against a permit application by Navigator CO2 to build a carbon pipeline across five counties in the southeast corner of the state. ...
6 Sep 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of August 2023 continue to move mostly lower. But there was one exception. All but one of the eight major fertilizer prices were down a considerable amount. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. After months of lower prices, anhydrous broke to the high si...
5 Sep 2023
By DTN Staff This article was originally published at 3:12 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Sep. 05. Refreshed at 3:25 p.m. CDT. And updated again at 3:40 p.m. CDT. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Bouts of extreme heat in much of the Corn Belt are starting to have a bigger influence on crop condition ratings, USDA-NASS stated in its weekly Crop Progress report. The percenta...