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22 Jan 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday spotlighted the problems facing Congress trying to draft a farm bill that will boost reference prices, expand crop insurance and provide more efficient disaster aid to producers. Lawmakers need to become more creative than looking at strategies that essentially rob Peter to pay Pau...
22 Jan 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Agriculture and environmental groups have asked the federal government to investigate Koch Industries' planned $3.6 billion acquisition of OCI Global's Iowa Fertilizer Company, expressing concern the transaction would further concentrate the fertilizer industry. Koch announced the planned acquisition in December, saying in a ...
19 Jan 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of Jan. 21. Watch for coverage of these and other topics through the week on our subscription platforms as well as on www.DTNPF.com. All times listed below are in Central Standard Time (CST) unless otherwise mentioned. 1. Farm Bureau reports: DTN Senior Ag Policy Edi...
19 Jan 2024
By DTN Staff This article was originally published at 2:04 p.m. CST on Friday, Jan. 19. It was last updated with additional information at 2:34 p.m. CST on Friday, Jan. 19. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.9 million head on Jan. 1, 2...
19 Jan 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday pulled a controversial proposal to create a category of stocks called natural asset companies, after critics including agriculture groups sounded alarms it would have allowed foreign investors to seize control of agriculture land in the U.S. The proposal would have allowed private inte...