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24 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The latest COVID-19 economic relief package may be heading toward a presidential veto. President Donald Trump on Tuesday indicated in a speech posted on Twitter that he doesn't support the $900 billion legislation that includes relief to agriculture and biofuels. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told agriculture journalists Wednesday m...
23 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices were higher across the board for the third week of December 2020. It's the second week in a row that all eight major fertilizers were higher than the previous month. Three fertilizers were up a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more. MAP, potash and anhydrous were all 7% more expensive compare...
23 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- In reapproving registration of glyphosate in January 2020, EPA ignored its own scientific finding that the herbicide may harm nearly all endangered species, environmental and farmworker groups argue in an opening brief last week in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. The Rural Coalitio...
23 Dec 2020
Joined in both matrimony and by the farm, Matthew and Kayla Poe together tend the soil of their Southern farm, always pushing productivity, always searching for the best use of their resource -- be it 200-bushel corn, packaged fresh beef or even fall decorations. "Our strongest attribute is that we work as one unit. We are stronger as a couple," Ma...
22 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Just a week after the Food and Drug Administration approved genetically altered pigs for food and medical use, USDA announced Monday the department is soliciting feedback to take over authority for overseeing regulations for animals produced through genetic engineering. USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) alread...