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27 Feb 2025
ARLINGTON, Va., (DTN) -- USDA forecasts farmers will produce a record corn crop in 2025-26 at 15.58 billion bushels (bb) while soybean production will also increase slightly to 4.37 bb despite lower planted soybean acres. USDA estimates farmers will plant 94 million acres of corn, up 3.4 million acres from 2024-25, while soybean planted acres are f...
26 Feb 2025
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced a $1 billion plan to tighten biosecurity and reduce the impact of highly pathogenic avian influenza on domestic egg prices. Speaking to members of the National Association of State Directors of Agriculture (NASDA), Rollins also said USDA is "making great progress" in wo...
26 Feb 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- For the second straight week, three fertilizers continue to lead prices upward, according to prices tracked by DTN for the third week of February 2025. Seven fertilizers logged higher prices, and one was lower than the prior month. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. Urea was 10% higher compared to last month wi...
26 Feb 2025
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The Texas Department of Agriculture has issued a warning to ranchers who operate near the Mexico border after a 74-year-old rancher from Brownsville, Texas, with land across the border in Mexico has been killed from an improvised explosive device (IED). Antonio Cespedes Saldierna, who operated land on both sides of the border, a...
26 Feb 2025
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- In a nearly party line vote, the House of Representatives on Tuesday night passed a budget resolution that will help pass $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, but the plan calls for steep cuts in social programs such as nutrition, which imperils the likelihood of a farm bill. The bill, which passed on a 217-215 vote, details specific budg...