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13 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers who filed claims with USDA under the Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program (PARP) will receive essentially 9.5 cents on the dollar for lost revenue during the 2020 pandemic. On Wednesday, USDA announced PARP checks are going out after the Farm Service Agency (FSA) received nearly $7 billion in applications from 38,500 producers...
13 Dec 2023
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- If green jackets were awarded for raising corn, David Hula could fill a closet. He holds more National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) Yield Contest titles than Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have combined Masters Tournaments wins. This year the Charles City, Virginia, farmer came to the top of the corn yield leader board with...
13 Dec 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The massive ongoing effort to reduce nutrient runoff across multiple states in the Mississippi River basin is beginning to pay off, according to a new EPA report to Congress on the work of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force. Most notably, the task force said the basin has reduced nutrient runof...
13 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mixed in the first week of December 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for five of the eight major fertilizers were lower than last month, while prices for the remaining three fertilizers were slightly higher. Two fertilizers had a notable price move compared to last mo...
12 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. agriculture and other sectors of the American economy will need to prepare for more trade tensions and likely retaliation from China if Congress follows through on a sweeping set of recommendations to "reset" the relationship between the two countries. The Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States a...