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15 Jan 2025
DES MOINES, Iowa (DTN) -- Republican state lawmakers, spurred by President-elect Donald Trump's annexation ideas, are now proposing to acquire counties from neighboring blue states. A state senator in the Iowa Legislature is introducing a bill that would allow Iowa to buy the bottom nine counties of Minnesota. State Sen. Mike Bousselot, a Republica...
15 Jan 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- It's a new year but virtually the same old retail prices for fertilizers. Continuing the same trend as at the end of 2024, prices for all eight major fertilizers saw no significant movement in either direction during the first week of January 2025. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. Average retail prices for fi...
14 Jan 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The expansion of renewable energy projects led to a growth in foreign ownership of agricultural land in the U.S. from 2022 to 2023, while at the same time the amount of ag land owned by Chinese investors dropped, according to a new analysis of U.S. data by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF). In addition, AFBF said as ...
14 Jan 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA will close out the Biden administration this week by finalizing a new rule restricting how poultry integrators score and penalize contract growers under the tournament system. Outgoing Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, on a call Monday with reporters, said the administration was finalizing its third regulation under the Packers...
13 Jan 2025
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Livestock organizations are looking forward to the new Trump administration taking over with cautious optimism. "We have to look at how President-elect Donald Trump did the last time he was in office," said National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) Vice President of Government Affairs Ethan Lane. "We saw when he was last ...