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17 Jul 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- After a week of attacks on social media, Deere & Co. on Tuesday announced the farm machinery manufacturer would change its polices around sponsorships and would no longer support certain "external or cultural awareness" events while dropping "socially-motivated messages" from policies. Deere stated it has never had "diversity quotas"...
17 Jul 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for all eight major fertilizers continued to be lower than last month during the second week of July 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Though prices for all fertilizers were down, just two fertilizers saw sizable price declines, which DTN designates as anything 5% or more. Both anhydrous and UAN32 were...
16 Jul 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- About one in four farmers in the United States turn to binge drinking in response to high stress levels, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Georgia. What's more, the study that included a survey of 1,045 farmers found them turning to alcohol because of stigma among the farming community and...
15 Jul 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday plans to step up the timing of when it assesses farmworker and other human exposure to pesticide spray drift by 15 years. Historically, the agency assesses human exposure to spray drift at the time of a chemical's registration review that takes place every 15 years....
15 Jul 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- A pair of Missouri's top political leaders are going after Tyson Foods, alleging the meatpacking giant deceived Missouri farmers when Tyson closed a poultry-processing plant in Dexter, Missouri, last year. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley and state Attorney General Andrew Bailey, both Republicans, are lending their support to a lawsuit filed ag...