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12 Jul 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Have you ever thought about how hot the back of a mail delivery truck gets? Or the dashboard of your pickup truck after a day in the sun? Suzanne Bissonnette knows. The director of the University of Illinois Plant Clinic has seen crop samples take some serious heat before they reach her...
12 Jul 2018
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN)-- In a surprise move that caught media outlets flatfooted, USDA announced Tuesday that the agency would end its more than a century-old practice of "lockup" events ahead of the release of USDA reports, such as the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) and crop and livestock production reports. Agency offici...
12 Jul 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Doors at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., were open to the press on Wednesday, as new Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler addressed agency employees about the future of the EPA. While the gesture by Wheeler may signal a change from the leadership of Scott Pruitt and his closed-to-the-media sty...
11 Jul 2018
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Illinois (DTN) -- Genny Haun hates bugs. Or perhaps a better way to say it is, they like her a lot and because of that, she has had a lifelong grudge match against most insects. "I'm pretty sure my parents considered me an unlikely candidate to be a farmer. It didn't take much inte...
11 Jul 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted full pardons to Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steve Hammond, whose conviction and prison sentences over a grass fire led to a high-profile standoff at a national wildlife refuge in early 2016. The Hammonds had battles with the federal Bureau of Land Manageme...