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19 Jul 2024
By DTN Staff This article was originally published at 2:03 p.m. CDT on Friday, July 19. It was last updated with additional information at 2:49 p.m. CDT on Friday, July 19. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.3 million head on July 1, 2...
18 Jul 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Four national agriculture interest groups sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday asking the Biden administration to reconsider guidance on sustainable aviation fuel tax credits and to include a domestic-feedstock requirement in upcoming guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production tax credit. The IRS ...
18 Jul 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Once again, the big-hitting data point in Friday's July 1 USDA Cattle on Feed report will be placements, given that last month's placements were up 4%. If last month's data is accurate, then we should see a reduction in the June placement data. But given that analysts' pre-report estimates fall anywhere from 89.9% to 100.7% compared ...
18 Jul 2024
MILWAUKEE, (DTN) -- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn "GT" Thompson of Pennsylvania and Arkansas Sen. John Boozman, ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, both offered their views on the state of the farm bill and the impact of the upcoming election at a Politico/CNN event at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Th...
17 Jul 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- After a week of attacks on social media, Deere & Co. on Tuesday announced the farm machinery manufacturer would change its polices around sponsorships and would no longer support certain "external or cultural awareness" events while dropping "socially-motivated messages" from policies. Deere stated it has never had "diversity quotas"...