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14 Jun 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The photos are striking. Renewable Fuels Association CEO and President Geoff Cooper put up on a large screen a 1900 image of New York City streets filled with horse-drawn buggies and one, lone motor-powered car weaving about. Flipping to a 1913 photo of the same section of street, there are motor vehicles as far as the eye can see an...
13 Jun 2023
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (DTN) -- Final numbers have been released for the number of cattle killed in severe flooding that took place around the area of Hereford, Texas, during the recent Memorial Day holiday weekend, May 26-27. Early on, some news outlets pumped up losses to 10,000 and more head. But now, with flood waters receded and cleanup mostly compl...
12 Jun 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Despite a significant loss in the Supreme Court that likely will require the EPA to rewrite the Biden administration's waters of the U.S. rule, the agency on Monday filed an appeal seeking review of a preliminary injunction against the rule in 24 states. The Supreme Court on May 26 sided with Michael and Chantell Sackett in t...
12 Jun 2023
After a rough year in 2021-22, mainly because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the DTN national average hard red winter (HRW) wheat basis started to recover late in 2022, but still ended the old crop year below the five-year average, even with lower production. The quality of the 2022-23 crop was not an issue, with the 2022 crop...
10 Jun 2023
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- After a relatively quiet start to the 2023 growing season, the first full week of June brought about a flurry of pest infestations and diseases. Here's a rundown on pest alerts DTN has received this week from extension entomologists, pathologists and crop scouts around the Midwest: SOYBEAN GALL MIDGE As DTN reported ear...