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5 Oct 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture and a bankruptcy trustee in Texas are at odds over a new law, the Dealer Trust Act, and how to move ahead with $119.3 million in potentially unpaid claims tied to a Ponzi and check-kiting scheme involving a cattle operation in Kentucky and Texas. The claims involve a pair of feedyards -- McClain Fee...
4 Oct 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of September 2023 are showing a more pronounced split as some prices rise and others fall. For the first time in many months, multiple fertilizers were higher in price. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. Five of the eight major fertilizers were more ex...
4 Oct 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA approved Ohio's plan to reduce phosphorus runoff from farms into the western basin of Lake Erie nine years after Toledo residents were warned to boil drinking water during a three-day period because of an algae bloom in the lake. The state has taken a number of steps in an attempt to curb nutrient runoff from farms and ot...
3 Oct 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Minnesota farmer Harold Wolle took over as president of the National Corn Growers Association this week looking to help thread the needle on Congress passing a farm bill this year. Commodity leaders such as Wolle are looking for Congress to take action to replace the farm bill that expired on Sept. 30. The next farm bill is expected ...
2 Oct 2023
This article was originally posted at 3:05 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 2. It was last updated with additional information at 3:45 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 2. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Widespread rain in Minnesota and Wisconsin led to some harvest delays in those states last week, but mostly dry, warm weather over much of the central Corn Belt kept the overall...