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16 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation to approve year-round E15 ethanol sales, appoint a special investigator at USDA for Packers & Stockyards Act violations, and aid farmers in buying precision agricultural tools that help reduce the use of fertilizer. The bill, H.R. 7606, is a package of separate agricultural-...
16 Jun 2022
Ag tractor and combine sales in May 2022 in the United States fell below the five-year average for the first time since March 2020, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) reports in its May 2022 Ag Tractor and Combine release. This is the latest evidence that equipment sales have grown soft in at least the near term. Declining tractor sal...
15 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail prices tracked by DTN for the first week of June 2022 show the price of most fertilizers continue to be lower compared to the month prior. This marks the second consecutive week most prices are lower after 19 months of mainly higher prices. Seven of the eight major fertilizers prices were lower than last month, but none were d...
15 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Archer Daniels Midland was ordered by a federal court on Monday to turn over documents and other information in connection with the unpaid 2019 suspension of a company employee at the center of an ongoing ethanol-markets lawsuit. ADM faces several lawsuits accusing the Illinois-based agricultural giant of manipulating ethanol...
15 Jun 2022
After a slow start to the season, planting progress is mostly back to the normal pace across the country. There are still some slow spots including North Dakota for all crops but sugarbeets, Kansas in soybeans, Pennsylvania in corn, and Minnesota in spring wheat. But most of the country has caught up to normal planting pace, quite the amazing feat ...