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12 Jul 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices continued to move lower the first week of July 2023, though price changes for all fertilizers were only minor, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. As was the case last week, prices for six of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to a month ago. But unlike in recent weeks, none of the...
11 Jul 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Pressure is increasing on the Biden administration to draw back on a proposed vehicle-emissions rule that ag groups and others say is a de facto ban on internal combustion engines, with states, agriculture, biofuels, petroleum and other business groups beginning a full-court press this month to oppose the EPA proposal. EPA's ...
10 Jul 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Agriculture groups have asked a federal court to order the Biden administration to implement immediate changes to the waters of the U.S. rule following the Supreme Court's ruling in Sackett v EPA that essentially left the current rule unenforceable. Among the immediate changes sought in a motion filed by the groups in federal...
10 Jul 2023
USDA's July World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report doesn't typically touch yield estimates for corn or soybeans, but given this year's early drought throughout the Midwest, there is a good chance USDA will at least adjust the corn yield, in addition to following up on findings from its June 30 reports. The Crop Production rep...
9 Jul 2023
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- July sits in the middle of knowing what a crop has gone through and trying to protect it against what might be left to come. For Tina, Missouri, farmer Zachary Grossman that means watching for waterhemp breaks, getting ready to spray fungicides by drone and mostly wishing for more precipitation. North Dakota farmers Chandra a...