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30 Mar 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- When it comes to the nation's leading soybean-producing counties, Illinois claimed every spot in the Top 10. The state's average soybean yield for 2022 -- 63 bushels per acre (bpa) -- was 4.6 bpa higher than Iowa. Only three non-Illinois counties made it into the Top 20. Two of those came from Iowa counties that border Il...
29 Mar 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Center for Biological Diversity will sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service near the end of April if the agency doesn't respond to a 2019 petition to restrict pesticide use in critical habitats, the group said in a letter to the agency on Monday. The Center filed a petition with USFWS on Jan. 7, 2019, asking for pesticide...
29 Mar 2023
On Friday, March 31, at 11 a.m. CDT, USDA will issue its annual Prospective Plantings report and the Grain Stocks report for March 1, a combination that has generated large price moves in the past. PROSPECTIVE PLANTINGS One of the least helpful reports USDA puts out each year that gets a lot of attention is the March 31 Prospective Plantings report...
29 Mar 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- All retail fertilizer prices continued to decline in the third full week of March 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices have been on a steady march lower since the beginning of the year. All eight of the major fertilizer prices were once again lower compared to last month. Four of the eight fertilizers had a sizable pric...
28 Mar 2023
OMAHA, (DTN) -- Republican Lawmakers on the House Agriculture Committee raised concerns Tuesday with USDA requesting tax information from producers to get disaster aid under Phase II of the Emergency Relief Program. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack countered that lawmakers may hear complaints from farmers about 2022 disaster payments because of le...