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Thursday, May 23, 2013

DTN Ag Headlines

USDA Faces COOL Deadline
05/20/2013
Despite complaints from Canada and Mexico, USDA has moved ahead with attempts to rewrite its rule following a trade case in the WTO against the U.S. that concluded USDA's original label discriminated against livestock from other countries. Canada has threatened to offer a list of U.S. products for retaliatory tariffs if the new rule goes into effect.

Court OKs RR Alfalfa
05/20/2013
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled in favor of Monsanto in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and others that said Roundup Ready alfalfa was harming endangered species and causing spread of noxious weeds.

USDA Weekly Crop Progress
05/20/2013
Corn planters were rolling hard in the past week as producers now have 71% of the crop in the ground, up 43 percentage points from this time last week.

DTN Retail Fertilizer Trends
05/21/2013
Fertilizer retailers expected some price movements in different forms of nitrogen, but that has yet to emerge.

View From the Cab
05/21/2013
Farmers are in a constant battle to balance things such as water: not too much and not enough can both cause problems.

Just Do It
05/21/2013
Growers planted corn like never before this past week, and technology led the way.

Too Good to Last?
05/22/2013
Recent Grain Belt land surveys and appraisals show mixed results for farmland values. Most studies show appreciation slowing or even slightly negative in late 2012 and early 2013.

Ask the Taxman by Andy Biebl
05/22/2013
More than half the states allow you keep your estate intact forever -- as in 500 or 1,000 years or more. But other methods may achieve the same goal without handcuffing your heirs.

Current Sugar Policy Survives
05/22/2013
Senators seeking to overhaul sugar policies argued in vain that food-processing and confectionary jobs are lost to Canada because of import restrictions and tariffs that protect a small number of domestic sugar growers.