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24 Jan 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mostly lower in the third week of January 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the fourth consecutive week, six of the eight major fertilizers were lower in price compared to last month while the remaining two fertilizers were slightly higher. DTN designates a significant mo...
23 Jan 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (DTN) -- If an immigration-labor deal develops in Congress, the American Farm Bureau Federation might be willing to accept caps on the number of visas for a year-round agricultural worker program. Delegates at the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) convention in Salt Lake City on Tuesday voted for changes in the group's policy bo...
23 Jan 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Two refining companies have petitioned the EPA to change the biofuels credit program at the center of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), claiming in a letter to EPA in late December that the current renewable identification numbers (RINs) program was illegal and driving small refiners out of business. In a Dec. 28, 2023, lett...
23 Jan 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Farmland values have hit a plateau after three years of dramatic price increases, but one of the nation's largest farmland brokers thinks tight supplies and high demand will keep a retreat in values at bay. Paul Schadegg, senior vice president of real estate operations at Farmers National Company, said despite pressure fr...
23 Jan 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA plans to limit pollution runoff from at least some meatpacking plants and launched a formal 60-day public comment period on Tuesday for a proposed rule that provides three different options. Even before the posting of the rule on the Federal Register, environmental groups were calling Monday for the agency to implement th...