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EPA has registered a new insecticide mode of action and BASF will offer it to small grains growers for wireworm control this year.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco rejected EPA's request to conduct an Endangered Species Act review on the insecticide sulfoxaflor.

Prices for six of the eight major fertilizers were higher the first week of January 2021 compared to the prior month. Four were up a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more.

China released long-awaited import approvals for Bayer's new RNAi rootworm trait, which is now set to be commercialized in 2022.

Planting soybeans in December may seem crazy, but it's part of a Wisconsin farmer's plan to learn how much cold a soybean can take.

Retail fertilizer prices showed big increases compared to last month, with anhydrous prices rising 10%, one of the sharpest upward swings tracked by DTN in recent years. The price of MAP and potash both increased 8%, while DAP increased 5%.

Looking over the top of a corn crop may get easier in coming years as short stature hybrids wend their way to market.

Soybean farmers whose fields had yield losses resulting from off-target dicamba movement in the past six years can now file claims as part of a $400 million settlement with Monsanto (now a subsidiary of Bayer).

Anhydrous fertilizer continues to lead other nutrients higher.

Research and farmer interviews indicate educators should focus more on management of perceived risks of soil health practices rather than the perceived benefits.

EPA has extended the public comment period by 45 days on draft biological evaluations for atrazine, propazine and simazine.

The prices of all eight major retail fertilizers tracked by DTN increased again this week; MAP, potash and anhydrous showed the strongest gains.

The EPA is facing a new lawsuit against its 2020 dicamba registrations, by the same groups who successfully sued the agency over its 2018 dicamba labels.

Environmental and agriculture worker groups filed opening briefs in a lawsuit challenging EPA's approval of glyphosate's registration.

The National Sorghum Producers announced a new dryland sorghum yield record, after a Pennsylvania grower pushed a field to 245.86 bushels per acre.

A website for filing soybean yield loss claims from dicamba injury is expected to launch before Jan. 1, 2021.

Retail fertilizer prices increased all around this week for the first time in many months. While MAP and potash lead the way higher, all prices seem to have gotten a boost amid early harvest progress and expectations that farmers will do year-end...

Both Canada and the U.S. need investments in their aging transportations systems. Billions of dollars could be at stake with agriculture being one of the industries affected by delays in shipping products.

Don Stall, of Charlotte, Michigan, netted top yield honors in the 2020 NCGA Corn Yield Contest, with a 476 bushel-per-acre conventional irrigated entry.

Domestic fertilizer prices were mixed in November, ranging from unchanged for ammonia and UAN to sharply higher for urea, phosphates and potash.

The potash short-term market outlook could see new capacity coming online in 2021, which could push the global market into an unbalanced situation in the coming years. In addition, the market also faces several challenges, including additional risk from...

Young farmers share innovative ways to make room for themselves in an existing operation.

Illinois and Indiana are working to enact June 20 cutoffs for dicamba use next year; Arkansas will keep its May 25 cutoff date.

Much like the nitrogen outlook, rising crop prices are improving farm economics and making phosphorus fertilizer more affordable. Unlike nitrogen, the world phosphorus supply-and-demand situation is a bit unbalanced in 2020 with more demand than supply...

Among other discoveries this year, Missouri researchers have found dicamba and 2,4-D in rainwater and learned that Liberty and dicamba do not mix well.