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15 Feb 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- An Iowa livestock company and four managers were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a scheme that led to at least $3 million in losses for hog farmers, caused by downgrading animal weights and quality classifications at buying stations across the Midwest. Lynch Family Companies, Inc., Waucoma, Iowa, pled guilty las...
15 Feb 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to shift lower according to prices tracked by DTN for the first full week of February 2023. This trend has been since the last week of December 2022. As has been the case in the last several weeks, seven of the eight major fertilizers are lower compared to last month. Of these seven, four fertilizers...
13 Feb 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- An antitrust lawsuit filed by a Texas farmer alleging Syngenta Crop Protection and Corteva Inc. paid distributors to block competitors from selling less-expensive generic products to farmers has been transferred to a federal court in North Carolina where the Federal Trade Commission and 10 state attorneys general filed a laws...
13 Feb 2023
By Logan Garcia, Market Reporter -- Fertecon, S and P Global Commodity Insights January began a reset across the nitrogen complex with anhydrous ammonia, urea and UAN fertilizer prices falling sharply to open 2023, a fall attributed mostly to a lack of demand across all products as well as further reductions in European natural gas prices last mont...
13 Feb 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Facing higher production costs, slumping consumer demand, and supply chain disruptions, the National Cotton Council forecast Sunday that at least some cotton acreage will shift to other, more profitable crops. U.S. cotton growers will plant 11.4 million acres, down 17% below 2022 acreage, the NCC stated based on a survey of early pl...