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18 Oct 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Just weeks after a federal court allowed an ethanol markets lawsuit to continue against Archer Daniels Midland, the company has filed a motion for a stay in the case pending the outcome of an appeal filed on a similar case. At the end of September, the U.S. District Court for the District of Central Illinois ruled that plaint...
18 Oct 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- In the push to end Chinese ownership of U.S. agricultural land, the state of Arkansas on Tuesday ordered Chinese-owned Syngenta Seeds and its subsidiary Northrup King Seed Co. to sell land holdings in the state. The company also was ordered to pay $280,000 for failing to file paperwork on its land holdings in the state in a timely ma...
18 Oct 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The retail prices of all eight major fertilizers climbed higher in the second week of October, with anhydrous, MAP and UAN32 posting the largest gains. DTN polls retail fertilizer sellers each week to compile price estimates and considers a price change of 5% or more to be significant. Anhydrous prices climbed 16% on aver...
17 Oct 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Highlighting the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), USDA announced the program has paid out $1.77 billion this month to landowners in the program. CRP acreage under the Biden administration has increased 4.3 million acres since early 2021 to 24.8 million acres now, a 21% bump. With new contract enrollments starting with the 2024 fis...
17 Oct 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A federal lawsuit in Kansas challenging a recent action by the Biden administration on the lesser prairie chicken has been transferred to a federal court in Texas. The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas on Monday granted a motion by the federal government to move the case filed in July by a group of Kansas farms, ...