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5 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices continued to be lower in the fourth week of May 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. This was the fourth week in a row that most fertilizer prices were lower compared to last month. For the first time in many months, prices for multiple fertilizers fell significantly, which DTN designates ...
4 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- As senators work out their details for a farm bill, young farmers on Tuesday told them about the need for base acres and higher reference prices, as well as access to crop insurance and better terms on loans. The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management and Trade heard from a Mississippi crop farmer, a Minnesota lives...
4 Jun 2024
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- A new proposed label for Engenia, BASF's dicamba herbicide, would maintain over-the-top (OTT) application of the product in soybeans, but only through the V2 growth stage or until June 12, whichever comes first. On Tuesday, June 4, EPA published a notice of receipt in the Federal Register and announced the start of a 30...
4 Jun 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- John Deere has given farmers the green light to have at least some emission control devices and systems on its equipment repaired by independent repair shops. The move comes after the company issued a voluntary recall of equipment owner's manuals following a warning from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the compa...
4 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agricultural producers and private landowners can now sign up for the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (Grassland CRP), USDA announced on Monday. The sign-up runs from June 3-28, according to a USDA news release. Grassland CRP is a voluntary working lands conservation program that enables participants to conserve grasslands and...