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19 Aug 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill focusing on climate change and health care that includes significant spending for USDA conservation and rural renewable energy programs. The $739 billion overall spending act includes $369 billion for various programs tied to renewable energy and reduc...
19 Aug 2022
WOODWARD, Iowa (DTN) -- Farmers stressed the pressures they are facing with fertilizer prices, including import tariffs, as well as Mexico's stance on genetically engineered crops and the need for continued access to foreign markets as an Iowa congresswoman hosted U.S. Trade Ambassador Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday...
18 Aug 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A new EPA draft ecological risk assessment released Thursday finds the herbicide dicamba potentially adversely affects birds, mammals, bees, freshwater fish, aquatic vascular plants, and non-target terrestrial plants, with the "primary risk of concern" for non-target terrestrial plants through spray drift and volatilization. ...
17 Aug 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN continued to move lower in the second week of August 2022. All eight of the major fertilizers are now lower compared to a month ago. In addition, half of the fertilizers are now down a considerable amount, which DTN designates as anything 5% or more. Urea was 6% lower compared to last m...
16 Aug 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill focusing on climate change and health care that includes significant spending for USDA conservation and rural renewable energy programs. The $739 billion overall spending act includes $369 billion for various programs tied to renewable energy and reduc...