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24 Feb 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Iowa Attorney General Thomas Miller said his office will look into the large increases in fertilizer prices paid by farmers. Miller recently discussed the issue with fellow attorneys general from eight other states, as well as U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. In press conference Thursday morning, Miller said the leadership of ...
24 Feb 2022
This article was originally posted at 9:44 a.m. CST on Thursday, Feb. 24. It was last updated with additional information at 4:32 p.m. CST on Thursday, Feb. 24. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- As the invasion of Ukraine caused global grain companies to suspend their operations there and put some global grain exports at risk, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsac...
24 Feb 2022
NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- Nearly every discussion at the National Ethanol Conference here this week involved ways to "decarbonize" ethanol from tailpipe emissions all the way back upstream to planting the corn. Countering a study out of the University of Wisconsin claiming ethanol has potentially 24% higher emissions than gasoline, the Renewable Fuels A...
23 Feb 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Commodity Futures Trading Corp.'s lawsuit against former eastern Washington rancher Cody Allen Easterday was stayed in a federal court, pending the outcome of his ongoing bankruptcy case. Easterday pleaded guilty to defrauding Tyson Foods and another unnamed company $244 million in costs for buying and feeding hundreds of...
23 Feb 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for most fertilizers continued to climb the second full week of February 2022, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the second week in a row, prices of all but one of the major fertilizers were higher compared to last month. Seven of the eight major fertilizer prices were higher, with one fertilizer up a co...