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6 Jul 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Endangered Species Act reforms finalized by the Trump administration and supported by agriculture groups were vacated by the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California on Tuesday, setting the stage for a rewrite by the Biden administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2019 removed a blanket rule in ...
6 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- South Dakota, Iowa and southern Minnesota were caught in another derecho system Tuesday night with high winds and heavy rains in some area, though early damage reports appeared relatively mild other than typical power outages. Parts of southeast South Dakota saw 3-5 inches of rainfall, and the storm was highlighted on social media fo...
6 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mostly lower the fourth week of June 2022, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. This trend has been in place for five weeks now. Prices for all but one of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to last month, with only one fertilizer down considerably. DTN designates a signif...
1 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Republican members of Congress on Friday introduced legislation to curb China's investment in U.S. agriculture as plans for a Chinese-owned corn mill in North Dakota are drawing more scrutiny. A Chinese conglomerate, Fufeng Group, announced last fall that the company would build a 25-million-bushel corn wet milling plant in Grand For...
1 Jul 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA is set to implement label changes to the insecticides malathion, chlorpyrifos and diazinon, after the agency announced on Thursday it had received a final biological opinion from the National Marine Fisheries Service as part of an ongoing Endangered Species Act review. This first round of actions taken by EPA affects 75 e...