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7 Mar 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- For the first time in several months, retail fertilizer prices appear to be softening somewhat. Prices for half of the eight major fertilizers were slightly lower the fourth week of February 2019 compared to the previous month, according to fertilizer sellers surveyed by DTN. However, although prices f...
6 Mar 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA has sent a rule proposing allowance of year-round E15 sales, as well as reforms to the biofuel credits market, to the White House Office of Management and Budget. Review of the rule that now appears on the OMB website, https://www.reginfo.gov/…, could take up to 30 days to complete. Originally...
6 Mar 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst Snowfall records fell all over the western U.S in February, from Seattle to Spokane, Washington, to Missoula, Montana, reported the Minneapolis Star Tribune on March 1. Storm after storm during February produced record snowfall across the Upper Midwest. In the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, it was the sn...
6 Mar 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Backing out of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an ongoing trade battle with China and resulting retaliatory tariffs against the United States are all trade policies that are costing U.S. farmers dearly, according to an updated Purd...
5 Mar 2019
DES MOINES, Iowa (DTN) -- Iowa farmers noted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo largely kept his cards close to his vest regarding trade talks with China, but they nonetheless appreciated Pompeo coming to the state on Monday to make the case about the importance of demanding structural market changes in China. The secretary of state didn't share many s...