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5 Oct 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt took heat for a rule proposed in April to improve transparency in the science used by the agency to draft regulations. Now, as the EPA continues to review public comments on the rule, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Ma...
4 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A group of leading dairy exporter praised potential increased access to Canada on Wednesday, but called on the Trump administration to drop steel and aluminum tariffs that have hurt dairy exports into Mexico, the top export market for products such as cheese. Leaders from the International Dairy F...
4 Oct 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to be higher across the board, according to prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of September 2018. For the third week in a row, all eight major fertilizers were higher compared to a month earlier. Urea once again posted a significant move higher, gaining 6% compa...
4 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The great hope for the soybean trade is that China will have to come back to the U.S. for beans this fall when Brazil's stocks lower and the bumper U.S. crop is coming out of the field. Instead, export terminals like those in the Pacific Northwest likely will see less rush this fall, but a slower...
3 Oct 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- High nitrate levels in drinking water is largely a rural problem that is expensive to fix, and in order to help alleviate the problem, farms should be required to implement targeted conservation practices to reduce nutrients runoff, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Working Group. The E...