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5 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to rise but at smaller percentages, according to prices for the last week of December 2021. Only two fertilizers were up a considerable amount. DTN designates a substantial move as anything 5% or more. Leading the way higher was anhydrous, up 9% from a month prior. The nitrogen fertilizer's average p...
4 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. dairy industry is claiming a victory over Canada's dairy import limits in the first trade dispute case brought under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The dispute panel agreed with the U.S. that Canada isn't meeting its commitments under USMCA in the way Canada set up its tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for dairy ...
4 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agricultural exporters moving goods out of the Port of Oakland, California, could get more ability to move their products onto an outgoing ship. The Port of Oakland has announced plans to improve the flow of ag exports following an emergency meeting last month with state and federal officials about port congestion. The Oakland port w...
4 Jan 2022
DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- From pandemic-related supply-chain issues to destructive storms, cybersecurity breaches and a change of leadership in the White House, 2021 had more than its fair share of big stories. But those weren't the only things that happened last year. Beyond the major events that dominated the headlines last year were numerous othe...
3 Jan 2022
There's no question cover crops can do a lot of great things for the soil, but as livestock producers try to put a dollar figure to the practice it's often a cover's value as feed that first comes to mind. Mark Yoder grazes a 150-head commercial Angus cow herd in southwest Iowa, and says they like to graze corn stalks and soybean stubble planted to...