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8 Apr 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite all the hubbub around plant-based proteins, traditional protein companies continue to expand. The latest is Tyson Foods, which on Thursday officially opened a new $425 million poultry complex in Tennessee that includes a processing facility, feed mill and hatchery. Highlighting how retail demand for chicken has grown, the pla...
8 Apr 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden more aggressively defended his $2.3 trillion infrastructure package on Wednesday, saying the plan and its funding are open to negotiation. But he also stressed the investments are needed to compete with China and other countries going forward. The president's proposals fell in line with issues raised Wednesday by ...
8 Apr 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Corteva Agriscience has pulled the plug on a new developmental dicamba product, the last in a series of moves over the past year to divest itself of controversial pesticides. The company opted to end the EPA registration process underway for a novel dicamba herbicide containing a dicamba choline salt -- a different form of ...
7 Apr 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to rise the last week of March 2021, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. But for the first time in many weeks, some fertilizers moved just slightly higher instead of considerably higher. While all eight of the major fertilizer were again higher, only five fertilizers moved significantly higher, wh...
7 Apr 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Insects and diseases are waking up and getting to work, and here at DTN, we have a growing inbox of pest alerts from across the Plains, Midwest, South and mid-Atlantic region. Here's what we're hearing this week: LEAF RUST AND STRIPE RUST In Texas and Oklahoma, it's shaping up to be a good spring for rust diseases, which lov...