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6 May 2021
By DTN Staff Editor's Note: This story has been updated. The original appeared April 30. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Agricultural corn seed giants started working on a containment strategy as Nebraska environmental regulators began taking stock of the pesticide and fungicide contamination at an ethanol plant that processed treated seeds almost exclusively. S...
6 May 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Growers with soybean injury and yield loss from dicamba in the past six years have only three more weeks to file a claim with the Dicamba Soybean Grower Settlement. The deadline to file claims is May 28, 2021. The settlement is from Monsanto (a legal entity now owned by Bayer), which agreed to make $400 million available to ...
6 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- After speculation and concerns over President Joe Biden's goal to conserve 30% of U.S. land and waters by 2030, the White House on Thursday released a broad outline to encourage but not require greater conservation efforts across the country. The Biden administration rolled out 30x30 as "America the Beautiful" to expand conservation ...
5 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- In one of his first trips as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Michael Regan met Tuesday with a group of Iowa ethanol producers who stressed the potential for biofuels lowering both emissions and cancer-causing chemicals. Regan, along with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, toured the Lincolnway Energy ethano...
5 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- While prices for all eight of the major fertilizers were higher at the end of April compared to a month earlier, none were significantly higher, which DTN designates as 5% or more. It's the second week in a row prices showed more muted moves higher after several months of rising sharply. For the fourth week of April 2021, DAP had an ...