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15 Oct 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The tumbling tumbleweed just got a little bit harder to control. Weed scientists at Kansas State University have confirmed populations of kochia in western Kansas that show cross resistance to both dicamba and fluroxypyr (Starane Ultra). Dicamba resistance in kochia isn't new -- it wa...
15 Oct 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The next time you head to the fields to check if they are harvest-ready, consider bringing a soil probe along to test for soybean cyst nematode (SCN). The SCN Coalition, which first launched in 1997, is urging growers to put SCN back on their priority list -- and the first step is testin...
11 Oct 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (DTN) -- On the same day he directed the EPA to complete a rule to allow year-round E15 sales, President Donald Trump used the issue to stump for Republicans in Iowa and Nebraska by hitting Democrats for their seeming lack of support for ethanol, during a political rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa....
11 Oct 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst USDA's next World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, set for 11 a.m. CDT on Thursday, October 11, is known for providing more accurate corn and soybean crop estimates, but this year, possible changes to USDA's export estimates may have bigger impacts on ending stocks. CORN For a crop that had few wea...
11 Oct 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- With Hurricane Michael bearing down on the Southeast U.S., much of Georgia's 1.5-million-acre cotton crop will be exposed to torrential rains and high winds on Wednesday and Thursday. "The Georgia crop is very vulnerable to devastation as it is 90% [opening bolls]," said DTN Cotton Contr...