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1 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Oswego, Kansas, cattle trader John Fife has been banned for life from trading and fined nearly $270,000 for repeated violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act dating back to 2008, according to a default judgment entered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The lifetime ban comes as a result of breaching p...
1 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The criminal sentencing of former Washington rancher Cody Easterday has been moved from June 13 to Sept. 19 after a federal court granted an Easterday motion to continue. The U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern Washington granted the motion last week, after Easterday asked the court for the delay pending the compl...
1 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of May 2022 show mostly slight increases, but some slightly lower prices as well. This is the second week in a row that three fertilizers' prices have declined. Five fertilizers' prices were higher compared to last month, but none were up a considerable amount. DTN designate...
31 May 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- An investment company and real-estate firm in Rapid City, South Dakota, has announced it will build the single-largest beef packing plant in the country. Kingsbury & Associates -- which has offices in Rapid City and Greenville, South Carolina -- announced plans to build a 1-million-square-foot plant that would process 8,000 head of c...
31 May 2022
This article was originally posted at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, May 31. It was last updated at 3:53 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, May 31. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. farmers were seemingly busy week last week, pushing corn planting to 86% completion and soybean planting to 66%, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Tuesday. The report is normally ...