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5 May 2021
Let's start by agreeing that $7 corn isn't necessarily a great thing. It isn't great for livestock feeders, it isn't great for ethanol plants and it isn't great for drivers planning summer road trips. And because $7 corn isn't great for all these customers and customers' customers, it's not that great for corn farmers, either, who may lose some cus...
4 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommends leaving the Dakota Access Pipeline open while it conducts an environmental analysis that could last into March 2022. The Corps stated this position in a court filing in federal court on a case that could eventually lead to the pipeline's closing. The Corps of Engineers provided a st...
4 May 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Ian Plagge will apply 240 pounds of nitrogen (N) per acre this year on corn-on-corn acres and 190 pounds per acre on corn-after-soybeans. Crunching the numbers on nitrogen applications is becoming increasingly important for the Lattimer, Iowa, farmer and others, as nitrogen costs ratchet skyward. Determining ideal nitrogen rat...
4 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- As Democrats in Congress look to line up provisions of the infrastructure package and a family relief plan, a House Education & Labor Subcommittee held a hearing Monday concentrated heavily on expanding overtime wages for farmworkers. The hearing highlighted overtime exclusions in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), going back to 19...
3 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA asked a federal court Friday to vacate three small-refinery exemptions (SRE) the outgoing Trump administration granted on Jan. 19, just days before the Biden administration was to take office. In a motion filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, the agency said it did not follow proper procedure ...