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19 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Friday's Dec. 1 USDA Cattle on Feed report will likely showcase supportive data for the cattle complex, as all three divisions -- on-feed, placed and marketed -- are expected to be lighter than a year ago. It will be especially interesting to see how much the placement data is affected. We know that not only are seasonal dynamics com...
19 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for four of the eight major fertilizers tracked by DTN were lower and prices for the other four were slightly higher during the second week of December 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. As has been the case in recent weeks, no fertilizer price saw a significant move, which DTN designates as anything 5...
19 Dec 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Since the beginning of the H5N1 influenza outbreak in dairy cows in March, more than 860 herds have been affected. To trace herds affected by the virus, testing began this week on Grade A milk intended for pasteurization. "We know currently the cases we are seeing are in California and Nevada as far as the dairy industry goe...
19 Dec 2024
Editor's Note: Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the Top 10 ag news stories of the year as selected by DTN analysts, editors and reporters. This year, we're counting them down from Dec. 18 to Dec. 31. On Jan. 1, 2025, we will look at some of the runners-up for the year. Today, we continue the countdown with No. 9: A federal court vacated the...
18 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Less than a day after details were released, the entire funding bill for the federal government -- and nearly $31 billion in disaster and economic aid to farmers -- appeared to fall apart Wednesday because President-elect Donald Trump, Vice-President-elect JD Vance and their adviser, Elon Musk, all want to kill the overall bill. In a...