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24 Nov 2021
The world wheat scene continues to be jarred by damaging extreme weather. Summer 2021 brought damaging drought to the U.S. Northern Plains and Northwest, Canadian Prairies, Russia, and Iran; and heavy rain either ruining crops or downgrading quality in the European crop. Now, record rain in sizeable portions of Australia right at harvest time is dr...
24 Nov 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to skyrocket higher, according to locations tracked by DTN for the third week of November 2021. As has been the case for months now, all eight of the major fertilizers were higher. Seven of the eight fertilizers recorded a considerable move higher compared to last month. DTN designates a significant ...
24 Nov 2021
DYESS, Ark. (DTN) -- Through a thick cloud of dust, Mark Fincher could see the faint outline of a small, but significant white farmhouse as he harvested soybeans in mid-October near Dyess, Arkansas. It's a home that Fincher has seen a thousand times in his 56 years, but it still stirs up thoughts about its significance to country music, agriculture...
23 Nov 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday moved to block a pair of major U.S. sugar companies from merging, arguing the merger would leave most refined sugar sales in the Southeast in the hands of just two companies, which would leave companies and consumers paying more for refined sugar. The DOJ's antitrust division brought the case...
23 Nov 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A group of 33 Republican legislators sent a letter to EPA on Monday, decrying the agency's recent regulatory actions on several ag pesticides, including chlorpyrifos, glyphosate and atrazine. The letter also signals that the legislators will fight any future additional regulations on other herbicides, at a time when the agen...