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7 Aug 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The ethanol industry continues to wait for a decision from EPA on 86 pending small-refinery exemptions after the U.S. Department of Energy finished a review and sent those requests back to EPA.During a news conference on Thursday, Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper said the small-refinery exemption program nee...
6 Aug 2020
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The average retail price of DAP and MAP fertilizers inched higher this week, while the rest of the complex saw continued declines, according to prices tracked by DTN for the last week of July 2020.DAP prices increased by an average of $4 to $410 per ton. MAP showed a smaller increase of $2, putting the average retail pric...
6 Aug 2020
Through the spitfire that 2020 has coined its appearance with, the spirit of cattlemen is still alive and well in the feeder cattle market. Bears would argue that the gesture "alive and well" is polite rhetoric for a complex that's overbought and soon to fall flat as feeder cattle healthily line the sandhills, northern range and feedlots of the Mid...
6 Aug 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- As agriculture continues to grapple with the fallout from the COVID-19 economic shutdown, recent reports suggest the industry will see financial pressure for the remainder of 2020.The number of farm bankruptcies continues to rise and a struggling livestock industry is putting increasing pressure on loan portfolios, both adding to con...
5 Aug 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Major ag companies have made a big splash over the past month, rolling out new digital tools and tech alliances they say will help farmers improve their farm's efficiency and lower their environmental footprint.Microsoft, Land O'Lakes, Bayer and Smithfield Foods are some of the players offering more data gathering and analyzing optio...