Headline News
RECENT NEWS
5 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farm groups and various officials continue to press USDA to broaden the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) as they highlight agricultural products left out of the program.USDA announced on Thursday that the department already has approved more than $545 million in payments. Since starting signup on May 26, USDA has received m...
5 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Of the 40 locations DTN contacted that showed offers for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) for the week ended June 4, posted offers were steady to lower and averaged $138 per ton, down $3 versus the prior week.The cash corn price versus one week ago hasn't changed much, but DDG prices remain under pressure as feeders are still l...
3 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices dipped lower in the fourth week of May 2020, according to prices for eight major fertilizers tracked by DTN.While no fertilizer has moved a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more in either direction, a majority of fertilizers were lower for the first time in ten weeks.Six fertilizers declined ...
3 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Springfield, Illinois, farmer Kurt Wilke won in court four times against USDA's Natural Resources Service. But it wasn't enough.For nearly a decade, NRCS insisted 22 acres of Wilke's 80-acre farm was wetlands, and NRCS continued to make that claim even after courts disagreed -- four times."It's been frustrating because you enter into...
3 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Food and Drug Administration has temporarily relieved some restrictions on hand sanitizer produced by ethanol plants in an effort to allow companies to continue to maintain supplies amid COVID-19, the agency announced in a news release on Monday.The ethanol industry has seen its market crash as a result of the COVID-19 economic s...