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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 ...
11 Dec 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Two agriculture groups last week filed a legal challenge to a California law that requires hog producers to abide by certain regulations in order to sell pork in California. The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation asked a federal court to decide whether the state ca...
10 Dec 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor CHICAGO (DTN) -- Farmers looking for some demand drivers to move prices can find a small silver lining that growth in global grains demand has outstripped supply the past couple of years, while the economies in Southeast Asia continue to grow and a possible trade deal with China could spark more demand for ethan...
10 Dec 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor GRINNELL, Iowa (DTN) -- Six Democratic presidential candidates laid out variations of their farm policy on Friday to members of the Iowa Farmers Union. Each looked in different ways to push policy more to the left by breaking up major agribusinesses and shifting the direction of farm subsidies. With 18 candidat...