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12 Dec 2019
By Russ Quinn DTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) and Fertilizer Canada are hailing the announcement Tuesday of a bipartisan agreement on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Once ratified, the agreement will protect the interests of farm customers across North America who depend on cost-effective fertiliz...
12 Dec 2019
By Todd Neeley DTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Repeated weather events delaying planting and harvest seasons, trade disputes disrupting commodity markets and continued lower commodity prices have created a tremendous amount of stress for farmers and ranchers this year. To help them deal with this stress, Farm Credit, American Farm Bureau Federat...
12 Dec 2019
By Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor and Jerry Hagstrom DTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The House late on Wednesday passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act by a vote of 260 to 165, passing legislation that has strong backing from most agricultural groups, but is opposed by the American Farm Bureau Federation and conservative gr...
11 Dec 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor CHICAGO (DTN) -- Reflecting the duality of American politics, House Democrats on Tuesday announced they had reached a deal with the Trump administration over the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement just hours after House leaders also detailed two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The deal reached...
11 Dec 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the first week of December 2019 continued to move lower. One change from recent weeks is all eight of the major fertilizer are now lower after several weeks of seven of the eight being lower. While all eight of the major fertilizers were lower in price from ...