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29 Mar 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- All retail fertilizer prices continued to decline in the third full week of March 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices have been on a steady march lower since the beginning of the year. All eight of the major fertilizer prices were once again lower compared to last month. Four of the eight fertilizers had a sizable pric...
28 Mar 2023
OMAHA, (DTN) -- Republican Lawmakers on the House Agriculture Committee raised concerns Tuesday with USDA requesting tax information from producers to get disaster aid under Phase II of the Emergency Relief Program. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack countered that lawmakers may hear complaints from farmers about 2022 disaster payments because of le...
28 Mar 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- With the EPA facing legal challenges to the waters of the U.S. rule (WOTUS) and pushback from Congress, EPA Administrator Michael Regan told a House committee on Tuesday he does not agree with a characterization by ag groups and now 26 states that the WOTUS rule illegally expands federal authority over waters. Regan testified...
28 Mar 2023
The spring season has certainly been an active season thus far. Severe storms are picking up, exemplified by the tragic tornado that plowed through Mississippi March 24 that killed at least 26 people. Snow continues to fall, sometimes in heavy bands. One occurred with that same system across eastern Iowa through eastern Wisconsin that dropped over ...
27 Mar 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Illinois may have set a record statewide average corn yield in 2022, but the nation's highest-yielding county can be found in Idaho. Six of the nation's top 10 county corn yield averages come from Illinois, according to data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service Quick Stats database. Two of the top county aver...