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23 Mar 2022
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- At a hearing Tuesday, Democratic members of the Senate Agriculture Committee focused on how Agriculture Department rural development programs can improve health care, elder care, childcare, and behavioral care, while Republicans focused on the impact of inflation on rural Americans, including their mental health. Building a sust...
23 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Strength is returning to the retail fertilizer market, according to prices tracked by DTN for the third week of March 2022. All eight of the major fertilizers were higher compared to last month and four were considerably higher. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. DAP was up 11% compared to last month with an av...
22 Mar 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The EPA failed to assess potential harm to endangered species when setting water-quality standards for the heavy metal cadmium, a new lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity on Tuesday alleges. Cadmium is used in the production of and is found in phosphate fertilizers. In a complaint filed with the U.S. District ...
22 Mar 2022
You can call it "progressive" or "zonal" or something else, but the upper-air pattern heading into the last week of March and through the first two weeks of April is going to favor a different type of weather system. They are not quite Alberta Clippers (moving from Alberta through the Great Lakes) and not quite "Colorado lows" (systems that move fr...
22 Mar 2022
You can call it "progressive" or "zonal" or something else, but the upper-air pattern heading into the last week of March and through the first two weeks of April is going to favor a different type of weather system. They are not quite Alberta Clippers (moving from Alberta through the Great Lakes) and not quite "Colorado lows" (systems that move fr...