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7 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue their slow price decline, according to numbers tracked by DTN for the last week of August 2022. It has now been five weeks when all eight of the major fertilizers are less expensive compared to a month ago. Only one fertilizer price was significantly lower. DTN designates a significant move as anythi...
1 Sep 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A western Nebraska city is looking for a partner to build a soybean crush plant at a newly developed industrial rail park, after local and state government entities completed preliminary work on the site. The North Platte Chamber and Development Corporation outlined the details of the type of business partner it is looking fo...
1 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Walmart's move into the beef meatpacking business announced on Wednesday marks a new shift of vertical integration for the country's largest big-box store and the cattle industry. Walmart signed an agreement for a minority stake and board representation in Sustainable Beef LLC, a $325 million planned beef packing plant that will proc...
1 Sep 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA has 29 days to decide whether to grant or deny a petition calling for the regulation of pesticide-treated seeds, after a federal court on Wednesday approved a consent decree between the agency and the Center for Food Safety and the Pesticide Action Network North America. Pesticide-treated seed is used widely across the co...
1 Sep 2022
BOONE, Iowa, (DTN) -- The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee committed to getting a farm bill done in 2023 if he takes over as chairman of the committee, and he criticized a GOP budget plan that calls for cutting farm programs. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, was among a group of Re...