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31 Mar 2023
We are in the thick of severe weather season and after last week's severe weather across the south with a strong storm system, we have yet another risk of severe storms for today. A deep low-pressure center currently located in northwest Iowa carries a cold front through the Central Plains back into western Texas early Friday morning. Other thunder...
30 Mar 2023
By DTN Staff This article was originally published at 2:08 p.m. CDT on Thursday, March 30. It was last updated with additional information at 2:24 p.m. CDT on Thursday, March 30. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2023, was 72.9 million head. This was up slightly from March 1, 2022, but down 2% from Dec. 1, 2...
30 Mar 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Federal and state officials are investigating an ethanol train derailment and fire in the southwest Minnesota town of Raymond, and according to law enforcement, town residents within one-half mile of the derailment have been evacuated. The derailment occurred around 1 a.m. CDT on Thursday, according to information from the Ka...
30 Mar 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- When it comes to the nation's leading soybean-producing counties, Illinois claimed every spot in the Top 10. The state's average soybean yield for 2022 -- 63 bushels per acre (bpa) -- was 4.6 bpa higher than Iowa. Only three non-Illinois counties made it into the Top 20. Two of those came from Iowa counties that border Il...
29 Mar 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Center for Biological Diversity will sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service near the end of April if the agency doesn't respond to a 2019 petition to restrict pesticide use in critical habitats, the group said in a letter to the agency on Monday. The Center filed a petition with USFWS on Jan. 7, 2019, asking for pesticide...