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8 Sep 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Agriculture and biofuels groups on Tuesday asked a federal court to set deadlines for EPA to review 31 small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard for 2018, and to vacate those exemptions while the review is ongoing. The 31 exemptions that had been granted by EPA earlier involve roughly 1.3 billion gallons of ren...
8 Sep 2021
This article was originally published at 8:57 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 8. It was updated at 5:14 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 8, following the Farm Service Agency's inadvertent early release of planting data. ** On Friday, Sept. 10, USDA will release crop estimates of U.S. corn and soybeans, which also includes field data for the first time thi...
3 Sep 2021
Only one corn-breeding line out of about 150 remained standing after a derecho slammed into Beck's Superior Hybrids nursery, near Marshalltown, Iowa, last summer. Winds exceeding 100 mph are an extreme test in standability for any experimental corn line, but the fact the variety stood like a tree when thousands of actual trees were blown over durin...
3 Sep 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The DTN average price for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) from 33 locations reporting for the week ended Sep. 2 was $201 per ton, down $4 from one week ago. Prices moved lower on average this week even as production was lower again, slowing DDG output. Wednesday's Energy Information Administration report showed domestic invent...
3 Sep 2021
Most of what we hear or read about passing the family business to the next generation is positive. Farm- or ranchland, financial assets, life lessons and family values are the primary assets we hope to transition to others. Indeed, significant time and money are invested in making sure things of value pass with as little tax or family friction as p...