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26 Aug 2015
By Pamela SmithDTN/The Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor BLUE MOUND, Ill. (DTN) -- It's 7 a.m. and the pile of shoes and water jugs sitting outside Amy Brown's back door tell a tale. Inside the white farmhouse, teenagers cover the carpet and sprawl across sofas, soaking up the last few gasps of air conditioning before heading to the soybea...
26 Aug 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service violated the Freedom of Information Act by not responding to numerous requests for information from the Center for Food Safety on the agency's proposed regulation of genetically engineered crops, the group alleges in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S....
25 Aug 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA is offering a bleak outlook for net farm income this year with new projections Tuesday citing net farm income for 2015 will fall 36% from last year, the sharpest one-year decline since 1983. If the figures hold true, net farm income would come in at about $58.3 billion in 2015, down from $91....
25 Aug 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- It has become the question of the day for U.S. ethanol producers: What happens to the industry if crude oil prices continue to tumble? Crude oil prices fell below $39 a barrel Monday for the first time since 2009, just ahead of the end-of-the-summer driving season and expected lower demand for gasolin...
25 Aug 2015
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- For the first time in months, retail fertilizer prices are beginning to drift lower, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the third week of August 2015. This comes after some time in which fertilizer retailers predicted prices would fall. Prices for all eight of the major fertiliz...