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6 Feb 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers and small businesses considering adding solar energy to their operations should be looking at new incentives and funding under USDA's Renewable Energy for America Program, known as REAP. The advocacy group Solar United Neighbors held a webinar last week touting some of the changes to REAP with applications due for the next fu...
6 Feb 2023
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 11 a.m. CST, USDA will issue the next World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. The usual ground will be covered, but most of the market's attention will likely turn to South America where Brazil's record soybean crop is being harvested and Argentina is struggling with drought. CORN In the January repor...
2 Feb 2023
NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- This week, some 7,000 cattle producers and industry partners and stakeholders rode into The Big Easy for the 125th annual meeting of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA). The event was just getting underway as USDA released a new set of cattle inventory numbers, turning the market loose. DTN analysts tracked the rep...
1 Feb 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday pressed USDA's new undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs about Mexico's push to ban biotech corn and why the Biden administration has not moved to a dispute resolution panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Sen. Chuck Grassley, R...
1 Feb 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to see significant price declines, according to prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of January 2023. This trend has been in place since the beginning of the year. Seven of the eight major fertilizers are lower compared to last month. Of these seven, five fertilizers were substantially lower, wh...