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25 Jan 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Syngenta Crop Protection and Corteva Inc. asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 10 state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission that alleged the companies paid distributors to block competitors from selling less-expensive generic products to farmers. In two separate motions filed with the U.S. Dist...
25 Jan 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices were lower the third week of January 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices have moved considerably lower in recent weeks. Seven of the eight major fertilizers are lower in price compared to last month. Of these seven, the prices of six fertilizers were significantly lower, which DTN ...
23 Jan 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- A planned beef packing plant in western Iowa that would process as many as 2,000 head a day is moving closer to reality after a $150 million investment announced from a Florida firm. The Iowa project is one of four separate cattle packing plant projects under construction or development stretching from Nebraska to Texas that add up t...
23 Jan 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- DTN has tracked retail fertilizer prices since the first week of November 2008. Eight major fertilizers (DAP, MAP, potash, urea, 10-34-0, anhydrous, UAN28 and UAN32) have been tracked every week since that time. During this more than 14-year stretch of time, fertilizer prices have experienced quite a range of prices, as farmers know ...
19 Jan 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Ukrainian farmers continue to face a range of pressures trying to grow a crop in the midst of the war with Russia. The damage to equipment and storage and lack of access to fuel and fertilizer will drop production forecasts for 2023, said Antonina Broyaka, an Extension associate in Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University. B...