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4 Feb 2019
By Greg D. HorstmeierDTN Editor-in-Chief NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue focused on "trade, trade and trade" as he spoke Friday during the closing session of the 2019 Cattle Industry Convention here. The secretary touched on a number of trade and other issues during his 34-minute speech. On China, Perdue stressed the toughest issu...
1 Feb 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst While trade talks with China remain the most important topic for U.S. soybean demand in early 2019, a Dow Jones report late Thursday provided some of the most optimistic comments to date. "We made substantial progress," U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said, after "two very intense and very long days of ...
1 Feb 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Todd Hanten had his bean seed orders locked and loaded by the end of December -- a mix of dicamba-tolerant RR2 Xtend, conventional and high oleic soybeans. Then the South Dakota farmer heard the news: The Enlist E3 soybean trait had gained long-awaited import approval from China, potenti...
1 Feb 2019
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- After shaking off the shutdown hangover, agencies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have started to detail how they are going to handle reports missed, delayed and canceled. Starting with export data, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has not published a weekly Export Sales report since Dec. 20, 2018. FAS has ...
31 Jan 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- It's been 14 years since Stanley Culpepper confirmed the country's first glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth population in some cotton fields in Macon County, Georgia. The University of Georgia Extension weed scientist had been seeing the warning signs of this new beast for several yea...