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17 Feb 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The fertilizer industry has made progress in improving the sustainability of its operations, according to a new report released by The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) on Thursday. Data has been collected since 2013 on metrics that provide insight into the fertilizer industry's efforts to improve itself, according to a TFI news release. Th...
16 Feb 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA will invest $63 million in high-speed internet to rural areas in four states, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday. Rural residents in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Mississippi will be connected to high-speed internet as part of the $65 billion Infrastructure Law, which aims to bring reliable internet to all communi...
15 Feb 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- An Iowa livestock company and four managers were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a scheme that led to at least $3 million in losses for hog farmers, caused by downgrading animal weights and quality classifications at buying stations across the Midwest. Lynch Family Companies, Inc., Waucoma, Iowa, pled guilty las...
15 Feb 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to shift lower according to prices tracked by DTN for the first full week of February 2023. This trend has been since the last week of December 2022. As has been the case in the last several weeks, seven of the eight major fertilizers are lower compared to last month. Of these seven, four fertilizers...
13 Feb 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- An antitrust lawsuit filed by a Texas farmer alleging Syngenta Crop Protection and Corteva Inc. paid distributors to block competitors from selling less-expensive generic products to farmers has been transferred to a federal court in North Carolina where the Federal Trade Commission and 10 state attorneys general filed a laws...