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10 Apr 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to slowly climb the first week of April 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the second consecutive week, prices for all eight major fertilizers were up from a month ago. Despite the increases across the board, the price of only one fertilizer jumped significantly, which DTN desi...
10 Apr 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- A key lobbyist for the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) is still hopeful a farm bill can get done in a presidential election year. Sam Kieffer, AFBF vice president of public policy, said Tuesday that the House Agriculture Committee is "champing at the bit" to start moving on a farm bill despite the political wrangling of a pres...
9 Apr 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- The American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) is recommending a new name for the illness that has been making dairy cows sick in several states: Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV). In a letter written by AABP's Executive Director Fred Gingrich and President Michael Capel, both veterinarians, they stated the illness se...
9 Apr 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- A key lobbyist for the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) is still hopeful a farm bill can get done in a presidential election year. Sam Kieffer, AFBF vice president of public policy, said Tuesday that the House Agriculture Committee is "champing at the bit" to start moving on a farm bill despite the political wrangling of a pres...
9 Apr 2024
Following USDA's March 1 Grain Stocks report, Thursday's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report should reduce corn's U.S. ending stocks and may reduce the export estimate for soybeans. Traders will also note changes to USDA's South American production estimates. CORN USDA has kept its estimate of U.S. ending corn stocks at 2....