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22 Mar 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Recent legal action has put neonicotinoids in the spotlight once again. This week, Minnesota's Department of Agriculture compensated two beekeepers after investigators found that neonicotinoid-filled dust from a neighboring cornfield damaged their hives last spring. Although research l...
22 Mar 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- While the future of agriculture across the Ogallala Aquifer remains a long-term question, which a new consortium of researchers at major universities across the Plains will study. The Ogallala is the largest freshwater aquifer in the world. It serves as the main source of public water for Nebraska an...
22 Mar 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The majority of retail fertilizer prices edged higher the third week of March as demand ramps up for the spring fertilizer application season, according to prices tracked by DTN. In recent weeks some prices accelerated, but this is the first week most of the major fertilizers strengthened in price. Fi...
21 Mar 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The 22 U.S. agricultural research and promotion programs and the 18 marketing order organizations that collect money from U.S. producers will be allowed to use their funds to provide information to Cuba on U.S. ag products and to interact with officials in Cuba, Agriculture Secretary...
21 Mar 2016
By Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A former president of the National Pork Producers Council has announced plans to form a new company and build a $240 million processing plant in Mason City, Iowa. The Carolinas-based Prestage Farms announced the rollout of Prestage Foods of Iowa LLC to build a 650,000-square-foot pork-processing...