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29 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal judge in Minnesota has ruled that a handful of cow-calf producers don't have standing to sue the country's largest packers over a drop in fed cattle prices in 2015. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim ruled against a group of cattle producers from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Tennessee who had filed claims against Tyson Food...
29 May 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- China has banned beef imports from JBS's Swift Beef Company plant in Greeley, Colorado, effective on May 27, 2024, after U.S. officials found traces of the feed additive ractopamine in meat from the plant set for export to China, according to information from USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service. China also blocked meat ...
29 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the third week of May 2024, prices continue mostly lower. This was the third week in a row that most fertilizer prices were lower compared to last month. As has been the case for two weeks in a row now, just one fertilizer changed an ample amount in either direction. DTN design...
29 May 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A multi-year battle about whether to require concentrated animal feeding operations in Colorado to monitor groundwater as part of the state's general water permit has now found its way to court. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued a final order on April 23, 2024, reversing a previous ruling by an a...
29 May 2024
This article was originally published at 3:03 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, May 28. It was last updated with additional information at 4:03 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, May 28. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Periods of heavy rain across the country slowed corn planting last week, but overall, progress nationwide inched slightly ahead of the five-year average pace, USDA NASS rep...