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22 Aug 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (DTN) -- Traceability in the agricultural supply chain remains a complex challenge, but commodity industries, food and clothing retailers are increasingly looking at what blockchain can do for their businesses. The prospects of blockchain came up repeatedly this week at an Ag Technology and The...
22 Aug 2018
By Greg D. HorstmeierDTN Editor-in-Chief OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite expected yield shortfalls in some Midwest states, record or near-record U.S. corn and soybean crops are forecast for 2018. As the DTN Digital Yield Tour 2018 powered by Gro Intelligence comes to a close, models still predict a national corn yield of 174.99 bushels per acre (bpa) and a...
22 Aug 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (DTN) -- In an era of tremendous change in agricultural technology, it's more important than ever that agribusinesses, research universities and farmers protect themselves against the risks of intellectual theft. Protecting trade secrets was highlighted last week at an agricultural technology ...
21 Aug 2018
OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and wheat inspections remained bearish while soybean inspections were neutral in the latest USDA export inspections report, according to DTN Analyst Todd Hultman. Corn weekly export inspections totaled 43.2 million bushels for the week ending Thursday, Aug. 16. This is up from 28.4 mb for the same week a year ago. Inspections fo...
21 Aug 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- With the 2015 waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule now in effect in half of the country, a number of agriculture and other industry groups are continuing the court fight. The groups have turned to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, in an attempt to overturn ...