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19 May 2016
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- Brazilian farmers have jumped into the soybean market in recent weeks and sold an unusually large portion of the 2016-17 crop only a short time after they harvested the last crop. According to Celeres, a local grain consultancy, farmers have committed to sell 16.4% of th...
18 May 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to hold steady the second week of May 1016, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. Retail fertilizer prices have been steady for five consecutive weeks now. Prices of four fertilizers were lower while four were higher compared to last month, thoug...
18 May 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Conventional biofuels such as corn ethanol would receive a boost if proposed Renewable Fuel Standard volumes released Wednesday for 2017 hold up. Still, at least one major ethanol industry group said the proposal released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still is not following the law. Repr...
18 May 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday approved a fiscal year 2017 Agriculture appropriations bill that would cost a total of $147.7 billion in discretionary and mandatory funding, which is $21.7 billion below President Barack Obama's budget request but still $7...
17 May 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Hundreds of farmers are tied to a lawsuit against Syngenta over the Agrisure Viptera MIR162 corn trait and how grain harvested from those hybrids affected corn markets because the trait was not approved for import into China. Though Syngenta is now being sold to a global chemical giant, ChemChina,...