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16 Dec 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Year-end tax planning doesn't necessarily mean you have to rush out to buy a large piece of equipment. That was a little bit of advice from Tina Barrett, executive director of Nebraska Farm Business Inc. Barrett highlighted a few late-year tax issues during a webinar hosted by the Center for Agricultural Profitability at the Universi...
15 Dec 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- As exciting as the explosion of the renewable diesel industry is for agriculture, an executive with CHS Inc. said during the DTN Ag Summit on Monday that the math doesn't add up for supplying enough feedstocks to fuel the growth. Gary Halvorson, CHS Inc. senior vice president of enterprise customer development, said change is...
14 Dec 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Although the number of hospitals and health care facilities continue to decline in rural America, more rural residents are able to access mental health services and are more open to talking about opioid addiction, a new poll funded by the American Farm Bureau Federation found. Morning Consult did the national poll in October ...
14 Dec 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Two agriculture groups made oral arguments last week on a case in federal appeals court that could determine the future of the herbicide dicamba. On March 15, 2022, the EPA announced approved label amendments that further restricted the use of over-the-top dicamba in Iowa and Minnesota. Those changes were made to federal labe...
14 Dec 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to drift slowly lower, according to prices tracked by DTN for the second week of December 2022. This has been the general trend in prices over the last several months. Of the eight major fertilizers, seven were slightly lower. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. DAP had an avera...