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19 Apr 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A federal judge in Nebraska on Monday consolidated all lawsuits filed by seven seed companies against Mead, Nebraska, closed ethanol plant owner AltEn LLC. The lawsuits allege AltEn's owner abandoned the 25-million-gallon ethanol plant site and left an environmental cleanup to the seed companies. AltEn stored tons of corn see...
19 Apr 2022
This is the optimal period for planting to begin across the southern half of the United States. From the South to the middle of the Midwest, planters are usually out in full force. Anecdotal reports of antsy farmers wanting to get out into their fields to plant are rising. Increased soil moisture has already led to some delays. (See https://www.dtn...
18 Apr 2022
This article was originally posted at 3:12 p.m. CDT on Monday, April 18. It was last updated at 3:57 p.m. CDT on Monday, April 18. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers made little headway planting corn and soybeans last week as winterlike weather returned to much of the Midwest and Northern Plains, USDA NASS reported in its weekly Crop Progress report on Mond...
18 Apr 2022
Change to the century-old Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA) may be coming this year, as legislators consider allowing livestock marketers to invest in processing facilities. There has long been a prohibition against livestock auction yards financing or managing processing facilities, originally intended to create separation between buying and sellin...
18 Apr 2022
It was an icy welcome on April 13, 2022, for the first saltie, Resko, as it entered the Port of Duluth-Superior canal, pushing slowly through the stubborn ice. This official video from the Duluth canal camera shows how the tugs Arkansas and Missouri helped it navigate under the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge into the harbor and over to the Gavilon Grain...