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16 Aug 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA is launching a study of pollution generated by confined animal feeding operations after the agency rejected two petitions by environmental groups from 2017 and 2022 to make wholesale changes to CAFO regulations. The EPA announced plans to form a federal advisory subcommittee to study CAFOs sometime in 2024. The process is...
16 Aug 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to fall at a substantial pace in the first full week of August 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. As has been the case in recent weeks, prices for all eight major fertilizers were lower compared to a month ago. For the second week in a row, seven of the eight major fertilizers had a large p...
15 Aug 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Bayer and other seed companies have spent more than $28 million in the ongoing environmental cleanup of the former AltEn LLC ethanol plant site in Mead, Nebraska, and now one of many business entities that were part of the corporate structure operating the plant is trying to prevent the seed companies from recovering that mon...
14 Aug 2023
This article was originally published at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, Aug. 14. It was last updated with additional information at 3:44 p.m. CDT on Monday, Aug. 14. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Another week of mostly beneficial weather boosted national crop condition ratings for both corn and soybeans for a second week in a row, USDA-NASS reported in its weekly Cr...
14 Aug 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The sixth DTN Digital Yield Tour found a comeback corn crop that could yield an average of 177 bushels per acre (bpa). Soybean drought damage to the bean crop wasn't as dire, but its outlook is more like average, at 51 bpa. The Digital Yield Tour is powered by Gro Intelligence's yield models, which generate county yield e...