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12 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for all but one of the eight major fertilizers were lower than last month in the first week of June 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. But for the first time in four weeks, no fertilizer saw a significant price move, which DTN designates as anything 5% or more. Prices for seven of the eight major fertil...
11 Jun 2024
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., the ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, on Tuesday released a farm bill framework that is similar to the GOP-written farm bill that the House Agriculture Committee passed, but with fewer policy or funding details. At a news briefing, Boozman said the Senate Republican committee staff ha...
11 Jun 2024
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Certain dates live in infamy. For some soybean growers, one of those dates may become June 12, 2024. That's the cutoff date for over-the-top (OTT) application of dicamba herbicides for post-emergence weed control in soybeans in five states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota and the southern half of Minnesota. This l...
11 Jun 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A Clayton County, Iowa, farmer awaiting sentencing on livestock theft, wire fraud and other charges has been fined by the state of Iowa for an alleged environmental violation at a feedlot he operates. Michael Wayne Butikofer from Monona, Iowa, was fined $4,000 for a water quality violation, according to an administrative orde...
10 Jun 2024
This article was originally published at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 10. It was last updated with additional information at 3:57 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 10. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Over 70% of corn and soybeans that have emerged are in good-to-excellent condition, up considerably from last year at this time, USDA NASS reported in its weekly Crop Progr...