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29 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Michael Stamp, the former owner of Decatur, Michigan-based Stamp Farms LLC, and two of his associates have been indicted on 14 counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and making false statements to attain loans and crop insurance, according to an indictment unsealed by a federal district court. A gr...
26 Jan 2018
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (DTN) -- Argentina's soil fertility is degrading because farmers do not apply enough fertilizer as needed. This problem will affect productivity in the future; in the meantime, this indicates a potential fertilizer market in the country. "About 15% of wheat and corn and 45% of soybean produc...
26 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inadvertently posted to its website a yet-to-be-published cancer risk assessment on glyphosate on May 2, 2016, internal emails show then EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy was exasperated when she learned about the release. The document was described as the f...
26 Jan 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst "Britain and America are two nations separated by a common language." While historians can't seem to agree on who first said it (George Bernard Shaw? Oscar Wilde? Winston Churchill?), most recognize the humorous quote as a pithy expression of more sprawling truth. Don't judge a book by its cover. Looks can be...
25 Jan 2018
By Bryce AndersonDTN Senior Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- The 2017-18 growing season in South America has not been perfect, but up to now, crop development has been satisfactory. That may change, however, with needed rain in the central Argentina crop belt looking less promising than earlier-season incidents. "Weather forecast models have been co...