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13 Dec 2021
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law on Nov. 15 includes $2.5 billion for inland waterway construction projects. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has 60 days, until Jan. 15, 2022, to submit a plan to Congress with recommendations on how this funding should be spent. The law states that "priority should be gi...
13 Dec 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Following the loss of life, homes and businesses, the agricultural community is assessing damages from Friday night's storms that wrecked the landscape for more than 200 miles across five states. One of the hardest hit communities was Mayfield, Kentucky, where Mayfield Grain Co., is an independent grain elevator with 750,000 bushels ...
13 Dec 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite significantly higher fertilizer prices across the globe throughout 2021, global nitrogen fertilizer demand appears to be set to increase in 2022. According to fertilizer analysts, demand destruction does not appear to be on the horizon. Nitrogen supplies continue to be tight with various supply issues, but the price of nutrie...
10 Dec 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA will not defend the Trump-era rule that allowed for year-round E15 sales, the agency said in a court brief filed with Supreme Court. The agency asked the court to reject an ethanol-industry petition for review of a lower court's vacation of the rule. Absent a Supreme Court reversal of the July ruling by the U.S. Court of ...
10 Dec 2021
AJ Blair is making the final passes on an oats field, a yellow Challenger pulling a Vermeer baler, round straw bales kicked out onto ground seeded with a red clover cover crop. The diverse, fourth-generation Blair Farm LLC, headquartered in central Iowa, near Dayton, is managed by AJ and Kellie Blair. The couple have been chosen to be part of our 1...