Emily Unglesbee

Bayer's ThryvOn Bt cotton trait, which targets plant bugs and thrips, will be undergoing field trials this year after USDA deregulated it.

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

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

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).

No. 6 in DTN's yearly countdown of the top ag news stories looks at how agrichemical companies sought to wipe their legal slate clean this year, such as Bayer settling certain lawsuits and Corteva pulling a product off the market.

No. 7 in DTN's yearly countdown of the top ag news stories looks at the legal tug-of-war that dicamba herbicides have gone through.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

New research suggests heavy applications of potassium can sometimes hurt corn and soybean yields.

There are new changes to use the herbicide in traited soybeans and cotton.

EPA determined that glyphosate is likely to have adverse effects on 1,676 endangered species and 759 critical habitats; the agency now must consult with other federal agencies on how to mitigate those risks.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to reevaluate part of its original ruling upholding Enlist Duo's registration.

The National Wheat Yield Contest's 24 national winners topped out at 206.7 bushels per acre, with growers from 29 states stretching from the Pacific as far east as Pennsylvania, and from North Dakota down to Oklahoma.

The American Soybean Association and Plains Cotton Growers have sued EPA, alleging the new dicamba labels are too restrictive and hurt soybean and cotton growers' ability to control weeds.

In its October dicamba registration, EPA slipped in a controversial decision to no longer allow states to further restrict federal pesticides via Section 24(c) labels.

Nitrogen is key to kickstarting a winter wheat stand. But your soils might already hold enough to get wheat going.

The old industry workhorse for SCN varietal resistance, PI 88788, is staggering due to overuse. Here's what the industry is bringing as new advances to fight one of the biggest threats to soybean profits.