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16 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday used a committee hearing meant to look at USDA climate programs to flip the script and discuss food security, energy prices and high fertilizer prices facing farmers. Coming from a speech in which Congress heard Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ask for more aid in the ...
16 Mar 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Nebraska ag land values increased by an average of 16% compared to 2021, according to a statewide survey by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Agriculture land hit an average of $3,360 per acre, according to the 2022 farm real estate market survey, which is the highest recorded value during the 43-year history of the survey....
16 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN continued to be mostly higher the second week of March 2022. Two fertilizers spiked considerably higher. For the second week in a row, seven of the eight major fertilizers were higher compared to the previous month, but only two were up a significant amount. DTN designates a significant move as...
15 Mar 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- On March 15, EPA announced that it has approved federal label amendments that further restrict the use of over-the-top dicamba herbicides in Iowa and Minnesota. For the 2022 season, the revised federal labels for XtendiMax, Engenia and Tavium, will contain the following prohibitions: -- No spraying on dicamba-tolerant (DT) c...
15 Mar 2022
The reign of the Arctic weather appears to be over. Low temperatures well-below the freezing mark followed a strong cold front through March 13, but that has quickly been replaced by above-normal temperatures across the majority of the country early this week. In fact, the forecast through March 24 calls for above-normal temperatures from the Europ...