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19 Feb 2025
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- A second case of New World screwworm (NWS) has been found in a cow in Mexico, in the state of Tabasco, just north of where the first case was found, USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed. Despite the finding, no additional action will be taken, a spokesperson for APHIS told DTN on Wednesday. This is...
19 Feb 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the second week of February 2025 continued to show most nutrients are more expensive with three fertilizers noticeably higher. Six fertilizer prices are higher, while one was lower and one was unchanged from the prior month. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. Urea was...
19 Feb 2025
Editor's Note: This story is updated from the Tuesday, Feb. 18, version. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- There are still no concrete details about the number of job cuts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture or which grant contracts have been canceled, but ground-breaking meat labs and the country's new crown jewel facility for combatting foreign animal diseases...
18 Feb 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- There are still no concrete details about the number of job cuts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture or which grant contracts have been canceled, but ground-breaking meat labs and the country's new crown jewel facility for combatting foreign animal diseases were not spared from cuts. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for "r...
18 Feb 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has talked a lot about egg prices since Friday, saying USDA will now be rolling out more tools to combat avian influenza, but also blamed soaring prices on overregulation by the Biden administration as much as the impacts of bird flu. Trump administration officials spoke frequently during the week...