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3 May 2023
Windy days are not unusual in the U.S. Midwest. Even so, the strong winds which raked blinding dust along a portion of Interstate 55 in central Illinois Monday, May 1, had some features both local and continental that created a wind tunnel. A National Weather Service summary of the dust storm notes: "The dust originated from freshly tilled and plan...
3 May 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices continued to be down from the previous month in the fourth week of April 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to last month. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. After a week off, anhydrous returned to...
2 May 2023
MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- Visiting with agricultural producers and touring research sites in Kansas on April 28, Sen. John Boozman, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, agreed that it's going to be complicated for Congress to pass a $1.5 trillion farm bill when Republican colleagues in the House just passed a debt bill meant to cut sp...
1 May 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Food and Drug Administration has made its first approval for gene-edited livestock to be processed for human consumption with a handful of hogs from Washington State University. But the researcher who led the project said regulatory oversight needs to change for the livestock or food industry to commercialize a food product from ...
1 May 2023
MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- Visiting with agricultural producers and touring research sites in Kansas on April 28, Sen. John Boozman, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, agreed that it's going to be complicated for Congress to pass a $1.5 trillion farm bill when Republican colleagues in the House just passed a debt bill meant to cut sp...