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27 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- For the second week in a row, multiple retail fertilizer prices have substantial prices declines, according to prices tracked by DTN for the third week of September 2024. Once again, seven of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to last month. Three fertilizers had sizeable price declines. DTN designates a significant mov...
27 Sep 2024
COLUMBIA, Mo., (DTN) -- With fall harvest and grain shipping reaching a peak, agricultural groups are calling on the Biden administration to protect agricultural shippers from a growing number of transportation bottlenecks. The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) on Friday led a letter to President Joe Biden signed by 195 agricultural groups...
27 Sep 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by half a percentage point in September will lower the cost of borrowing money this fall, a small but welcome relief to farmers plagued by inflationary input costs and rock-bottom commodity prices. "If you're borrowing $2 million at 8% interest, that's $160,000, assumi...
27 Sep 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its vulnerable species action plan (VSAP) on Thursday that sets out ways to protect from pesticides 27 plant and animal species identified as imperiled or in danger of extinction. The plan was released as part of the agency's ongoing response to a 2023 court settlement on the ...
26 Sep 2024
By Katie Dehlinger, DTN Farm Business Editor, and Elaine Shein, DTN/Progressive Farmer Associate Content Manager MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Musicians Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp turned their spotlight on the plight of farmers in 1985, during the depth of farming's financial crisis. They've kept it there ever since, growing Farm Ai...