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30 Mar 2023
By DTN Staff This article was originally published at 2:08 p.m. CDT on Thursday, March 30. It was last updated with additional information at 2:24 p.m. CDT on Thursday, March 30. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2023, was 72.9 million head. This was up slightly from March 1, 2022, but down 2% from Dec. 1, 2...
30 Mar 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Federal and state officials are investigating an ethanol train derailment and fire in the southwest Minnesota town of Raymond, and according to law enforcement, town residents within one-half mile of the derailment have been evacuated. The derailment occurred around 1 a.m. CDT on Thursday, according to information from the Ka...
30 Mar 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- When it comes to the nation's leading soybean-producing counties, Illinois claimed every spot in the Top 10. The state's average soybean yield for 2022 -- 63 bushels per acre (bpa) -- was 4.6 bpa higher than Iowa. Only three non-Illinois counties made it into the Top 20. Two of those came from Iowa counties that border Il...
29 Mar 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Center for Biological Diversity will sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service near the end of April if the agency doesn't respond to a 2019 petition to restrict pesticide use in critical habitats, the group said in a letter to the agency on Monday. The Center filed a petition with USFWS on Jan. 7, 2019, asking for pesticide...
29 Mar 2023
On Friday, March 31, at 11 a.m. CDT, USDA will issue its annual Prospective Plantings report and the Grain Stocks report for March 1, a combination that has generated large price moves in the past. PROSPECTIVE PLANTINGS One of the least helpful reports USDA puts out each year that gets a lot of attention is the March 31 Prospective Plantings report...