
Force majeure clauses have been in the news. What do they mean for farmers who sign contracts?
With U.S. equities rebounding after a three-session selloff, oil futures traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange and Brent crude on the...
Farmers Marc Arnusch of Keenesburg, Colorado, and Luke Garrabrant of Johnstown, Ohio, are reporting on crop conditions and agricultural topics...
Emily (Garnett) Unglesbee is a staff reporter for the DTN newsroom. She grew up in south-central Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in classics. Looking for a brief break from academia, she spent the next two years working on five different farms and ranches in England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Nebraska. After discovering how much she enjoyed agriculture, she earned her master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, while working part-time for DTN/The Progressive Farmer and the Missouri Ruralist. She has been a full-time reporter since 2014.
Force majeure clauses have been in the news. What do they mean for farmers who sign contracts?
A look into how EPA's new policy of enforcing the Endangered Species Act will affect ag pesticides moving forward.
Bayer has submitted voluntary new label restrictions to EPA for its dicamba herbicide, XtendiMax, and other companies may follow suit, EPA said.
Farmers have a unique opportunity to shape future pesticide labels, as EPA rolls out its new plan to make pesticides comply with the Endangered Species Act.
Brush up on the timeline for switching to shorter-season corn or soybeans, as well as how to do it safely.
What's waiting for the 2022 crop? Black cutworms, slugs, bean leaf beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggot, wireworms and maybe grape colaspis! Scout those newly emerged fields carefully this spring.
Cool, wet weather is holding corn and soybean planting back, but farmers are poised to play catch up if a tentative forecast for drier weather in mid-May pans out.
Persistent drought and high winds have caused permanent reductions in yield potential for many winter wheat acres in a year of soaring prices and anxious markets.
Pythium, Phytophthora, Fusarium and Rhizoctonia are the top four diseases waiting to pounce on corn and soybean seeds trying to emerge in cold, saturated soils.
With some growers losing up to 20 bushels per acre to certain SCN populations, farmers are stuck with a limited market for new sources of SCN-resistant soybeans.
Watch that long-term forecast, consider planting soybeans first and pick early planted field locations carefully.
The EPA's winter release of surprising new Enlist herbicide restrictions, followed by a quick reversal in the spring, hold some important regulatory lessons for all farmers who use pesticides.
Soil nitrate tests in Minnesota have shown that some farmers' fields are packing a decent nitrogen credit after the dry 2021 growing season.
Growers in previously banned counties in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota will be able to use Enlist herbicides in 2022 after EPA analyzed new data from Corteva. Some Texas counties...
A federal judge tasked with deciding dicamba's legal future is demanding EPA be clearer about when and how the agency might address off-target dicamba injury with regulatory action.
War rages overseas, drought lingers across much of the country and input shortages persist. But U.S. farmers are heading to the field to do what they always do: plant a crop.
As planting season nears, the ag input crisis is coming to a head.
Ag groups lost two attempts to get a stay of EPA's chlorpyrifos ban, but their latest legal challenge against the new rule will proceed in the meantime.
Do you grow corn? Then you probably need the updated Handy Bt Trait Table, a cheat sheet for every corn trait on the market.
In an unusual move, EPA has amended its federal dicamba labels to accommodate Iowa- and Minnesota-specific cutoff rules.
Agrichemical and seed companies unveiled their latest crop traits and weed technology at Commodity Classic in New Orleans.
Grains of hope for overcoming tough conditions can be found in the fields of 2021 wheat yield contest winners.
Wheat prices are soaring, but widespread drought in wheat-growing regions is keeping many growers sidelined from the profit potential.
A look at the top winners from the National Wheat Foundation's 2021 National Wheat Yield Contest.
Grasshoppers, spider mites and aphids could thrive in crop fields facing hot, dry weather in 2022.
Wheat contest winners share their tricks to limit lodging while pushing bushels.
Do you have leftover chlorpyrifos products or grain with chlorpyrifos residues? Here's how to proceed for now.
Wheat contest winners overcome climate extremes in 2021.
Wheat contest winners share their tricks to limit lodging while pushing bushels.
National Wheat Foundation 2021 National Wheat Yield Contest winners share their formulas for success.
The EPA announced it was denying ag groups' 2021 petitions to halt the chlorpyrifos ban, as a federal judge weighs a 2022 lawsuit against the agency asking for a stay on the ban.
Bayer says it has entered an agreement with M.S. Technologies to offer Enlist E3 soybeans starting in 2023.
Republican legislators have sent a flurry of letters to EPA this month, asking the agency to preserve farmer access to various ag pesticides, including dicamba and chlorpyrifos.