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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 ...
31 May 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A federal appeals court this month ruled a district court got it right when in 2021 it dismissed a cattle industry lawsuit that challenged a Trump administration proposal to mandate the use of radio frequency identification of animals in interstate commerce. The ruling handed down by the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ...
27 May 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Meg Moynihan compares farm stress to an onion. It is easy to see the most obvious issues in the outside layer, but as you peel back more layers the deeper issues farmers and ranchers have contain a huge array of challenges. Weather, markets, finances, pests, animal health, government regulation, etc. are just a few of the challenges....