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26 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were lower than last month during the third week of June 2024 with prices for three of those down significantly, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. The price of the eighth fertilizer was unchanged. The three fertilizers that saw significant price drops, which DTN desig...
25 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Continuing to push on livestock competition issues, USDA on Tuesday proposed a new Packers and Stockyards Act rule targeting how "injury to competition" should be interpreted in lawsuits brought by producers against packers. The issue has been a longstanding challenge for livestock and poultry producers filing claims against meatpack...
25 Jun 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Iowa Utilities Board approved Summit Carbon Solutions' proposed carbon pipeline project in an order issued on Tuesday, clearing the way for the company to construct the Iowa segment of the pipeline that covers 688 miles in 29 counties. The board cleared the way for Summit to use eminent domain to acquire the needed land t...
25 Jun 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Flood waters rose quickly in several northwest Iowa counties during the weekend, leaving livestock displaced, missing and perhaps dead. Kyle Puhrmann of Paullina told DTN that he is missing nine cows and 27 calves from his farm when he last counted on Monday morning. "We have been sorting and pairing up the cows and calves w...
24 Jun 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Clean Fuels Alliance America is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to increase biomass-based diesel volumes for 2024 and 2025 in the Renewable Fuel Standard, in a rare petition set to be filed with the agency. When EPA finalized the so-called set rule one year ago, the biomass-based diesel industry said the volum...