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7 Feb 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mostly lower in the first week of February 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the sixth straight week, prices for six of the eight major fertilizers were lower than last month, while prices for the remaining two fertilizers were slightly higher. For the second week in a ro...
6 Feb 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A federal court in Arizona on Tuesday vacated the 2020 registrations of three dicamba products previously approved by the EPA for over-the-top applications including XtendiMax, Enginia and Tavium. The court ruled the agency violated notice-and-comment mandates for new-use pesticide registrations. The ruling in the U.S. Distri...
6 Feb 2024
By Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor, and Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow began Monday to jumpstart the debate on a new farm bill with a plan that would give farmers a choice between a higher premium subsidy for crop insurance or signing up for the traditiona...
6 Feb 2024
USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report in February is usually a quiet affair for grain and oilseed prices. This year, there may be some adjustments to U.S. export estimates. But most of traders' attention will likely be on South American crop estimates for corn and soybeans. USDA will release its February Crop Producti...
5 Feb 2024
Of the many things you intend to give the next generation, perhaps nothing has as much potential permanence as the principles and philosophies you leave behind. Land will eventually be sold, money will be spent or divided, and physical items will get lost or broken. But the ideas and lessons you offer can be considered anew in each extension of you...