Headline News
RECENT NEWS
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...
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...
25 Jan 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue laid out a four-page set of principles for the farm bill Wednesday during a trip to Pennsylvania. The summary of principles are largely broad in scope and would leave much of the nuts and bolts of a farm bill up to Congress. USDA wants a "fiscally responsible" f...