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31 Jan 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Calling the Biden administration's new waters of the U.S. rule confusing and costly to communities, the governors of 25 states asked the administration to delay the implementation of the rule until after a key Clean Water Act ruling in the Sackett case is issued sometime this spring. The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Enginee...
26 Jan 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- For many years, ethanol opponents in the refining industry have called for the EPA to cut back on ethanol blending. There just isn't enough gasoline consumed to be able to blend 15 billion gallons of ethanol annually, critics say, making their voices heard each time the agency holds public hearings on the Renewable Fuel Stand...
25 Jan 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Syngenta Crop Protection and Corteva Inc. asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 10 state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission that alleged the companies paid distributors to block competitors from selling less-expensive generic products to farmers. In two separate motions filed with the U.S. Dist...
25 Jan 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices were lower the third week of January 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices have moved considerably lower in recent weeks. Seven of the eight major fertilizers are lower in price compared to last month. Of these seven, the prices of six fertilizers were significantly lower, which DTN ...
23 Jan 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- A planned beef packing plant in western Iowa that would process as many as 2,000 head a day is moving closer to reality after a $150 million investment announced from a Florida firm. The Iowa project is one of four separate cattle packing plant projects under construction or development stretching from Nebraska to Texas that add up t...