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1 Jun 2023
DES MOINES (DTN) -- While federal officials expect more than 50,000 miles of carbon dioxide pipelines could be built over the next two decades, landowners from Iowa and Illinois at a public hearing this week called on federal pipeline regulators to issue a moratorium on any new carbon pipeline construction until new safety rules are drafted. The Pi...
31 May 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of May 2023, fertilizers are mostly higher. This is the first time since November of 2022 that more fertilizers were higher in price than lower compared to the prior month. Five of the eight major fertilizers are higher in price compared to last month. Only one ...
31 May 2023
By Russ Quinn and Todd Neeley, DTN Staff Reporters OMAHA (DTN) -- Severe flooding in the panhandle of Texas has caused cattle losses in the largest cattle feeding region of the country. Ben Weinheimer, president and CEO of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, told DTN producers in the Hereford area as of Wednesday were unsure about the extent of t...
31 May 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Former eastern Washington rancher Cody Allen Easterday will be permanently banned from commodity trading and pay a $1 million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of a consent agreement filed in federal court. Easterday is serving an 11-year prison sentence in California for pleading guilty to one count of...
30 May 2023
Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor and Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent OMAHA (DTN) -- Farm programs would come out of the debt-ceiling debate largely unscathed as lawmakers gnash their teeth over a compromise spending and debt-limit bill that needs to clear both chambers by June 5. The bill, the Fiscal Responsibility Act, released over...