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18 Jul 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Four national agriculture interest groups sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday asking the Biden administration to reconsider guidance on sustainable aviation fuel tax credits and to include a domestic-feedstock requirement in upcoming guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production tax credit. The IRS ...
18 Jul 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Once again, the big-hitting data point in Friday's July 1 USDA Cattle on Feed report will be placements, given that last month's placements were up 4%. If last month's data is accurate, then we should see a reduction in the June placement data. But given that analysts' pre-report estimates fall anywhere from 89.9% to 100.7% compared ...
18 Jul 2024
MILWAUKEE, (DTN) -- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn "GT" Thompson of Pennsylvania and Arkansas Sen. John Boozman, ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, both offered their views on the state of the farm bill and the impact of the upcoming election at a Politico/CNN event at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Th...
17 Jul 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- After a week of attacks on social media, Deere & Co. on Tuesday announced the farm machinery manufacturer would change its polices around sponsorships and would no longer support certain "external or cultural awareness" events while dropping "socially-motivated messages" from policies. Deere stated it has never had "diversity quotas"...
17 Jul 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for all eight major fertilizers continued to be lower than last month during the second week of July 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Though prices for all fertilizers were down, just two fertilizers saw sizable price declines, which DTN designates as anything 5% or more. Both anhydrous and UAN32 were...