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18 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Congress on Tuesday released the details of a disaster package that includes nearly $31 billion overall for farmers. The year-end funding bill congressional leaders released includes nearly $21 billion to help farmers recovering from natural disasters and another $10 billion in economic aid to crop producers. Congress late Tuesday re...
18 Dec 2024
Editor's Note: Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the Top 10 ag news stories of the year as selected by DTN analysts, editors and reporters. This year, we're counting them down from Dec. 18 to Dec. 31. On Jan. 1, 2025, we will look at some of the runners-up for the year. Today, we start the countdown with No. 10: Labor unrest heats up in the ...
18 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for four of the eight major fertilizers tracked by DTN were lower and prices for the other four were slightly higher during the second week of December 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. As has been the case in recent weeks, no fertilizer price saw a significant move, which DTN designates as anything 5...
17 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Congress appeared to reach an agreement on a year-end spending deal that includes $10 billion in economic aid to farmers and reportedly provides ethanol producers the opportunity to sell E15 year-round nationally. While House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced that a deal had been reached on a funding bill for the government and ...
17 Dec 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has accelerated in Iowa in recent weeks, with the state reporting three new cases in three counties on Monday, including a commercial layer flock in Sioux County, a commercial turkey flock in Worth County, and a backyard mixed-species flock in Monona County. The Iowa Depart...