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24 Feb 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Members of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday drew lines in the sand on the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard -- mainly along party lines -- although the original law was passed along bipartisan lines back in 2005 and revamped in 2007. Though potential RFS reform d...
23 Feb 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati ruled it has jurisdiction to hear numerous legal challenges to the waters of the United States rule on Monday. In the court's majority opinion, Judge David W. McKeague wrote that because federal district courts issued conflicting rulings on...
23 Feb 2016
By Dan DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist Getting cover crops planted in a timely manner is a challenge for farmers in a corn/soybean rotation. One way to get a jump on fall is to interseed cover crops into standing corn after the V4 leaf stage. Corn is about 30 inches tall at this stage and should be competitive enough to compete for nutrients ...
23 Feb 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As has been the case over the last couple of months, some retail fertilizer prices are showing noticeable declines the third week of February 2016, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN. All eight major fertilizers were lower compared to a month earlier. Anhydrous slid 7% compared to la...
22 Feb 2016
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- With no more than sparse showers registered across Brazil's principal soy-producing regions, harvest efforts moved forward smartly last week, according to AgRural, a local farm consultancy. Fieldwork progressed seven percentage points to 23% as of Friday (Feb. 19), surpas...