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4 Jan 2023
Drought has been a major influence on California for almost three straight years. Moderate drought has been in the Central Valley of California going back to February of 2020 with a significant worsening of drought conditions across the state in late 2020 and 2021. Exceptional drought, the highest category of drought on the U.S. Drought Monitor, ha...
4 Jan 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- For the second week in a row, retail fertilizer prices have shifted considerably lower, according to locations tracked by DTN for the final week of December 2022. All eight major fertilizers are once again less expensive compared to last month. Half of the fertilizers were significantly lower compared to last month. DTN designates a ...
1 Jan 2023
DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- A lot can happen in a year. During the past two weeks, we've highlighted 10 of the biggest stories that DTN editors, reporters and analysts felt defined 2022. But that certainly wasn't all that happened this past year. Beyond the big news like farmland values smashing records, Mississippi and Ohio river levels hitting rock ...
30 Dec 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The EPA on Friday released a final rule defining waters of the U.S., in an action the agency hopes will clarify a number of issues for farmers and ranchers as it relates to the Clean Water Act. EPA Agriculture Advisor Rod Snyder answered a number of questions posed by DTN this week about WOTUS. The following Q&A has been edit...
30 Dec 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA's final waters of the U.S. rule released on Friday keeps a controversial "significant-nexus" test in place when determining jurisdictional waters and codifies for the first time a number of long-standing agriculture exemptions to the Clean Water Act. The new rule proposed in November 2021, essentially reverts to pre-2015 ...