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21 Nov 2024
MINNEAPOLIS (DTN) -- A former agricultural adviser to the Environmental Protection Agency in the Biden administration raised concerns Wednesday about President-elect Donald Trump's plans to roll back climate initiatives, but expressed optimism that the private sector will continue to focus on lowering agriculture's carbon footprint. Rod Snyder, who...
20 Nov 2024
MINNEAPOLIS (DTN) -- As Congress looks to craft a disaster package, Republican senators are making the case that disaster aid for farmers should be broader than just those producers hit by hurricanes this fall and include "market-related disasters." The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing Wednesday with officials from multiple feder...
20 Nov 2024
Editor's Note: U.S. wheat farmers entered the National Wheat Yield Contest in record numbers in 2024. DTN is featuring details about the fields and farmers and their winning entries in several profiles. Today, we present the Bin Buster winner in the dryland winter wheat category. ** JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- In Oregon's Willamette River Valley, ...
20 Nov 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices continued to be higher than they were a month ago during the second week of November 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the second week in a row, prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were up from last month, while the price of the remaining fertilizer was down. Once again,...
19 Nov 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A recently finalized rule to classify "forever chemicals" as toxic substances has raised the ire of agriculture groups that say the rule creates "forever liability" for farmers and ranchers who aren't responsible for those chemicals in the environment. Earlier this month the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the U.S. Environmenta...