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28 Oct 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- With nitrogen supplies tight and costs skyrocketing, there's never been a better year to take advantage of wheat's minimal fertilizer needs in the fall. Take it from Marc Arnusch, a Colorado farmer who discovered he was overfeeding his wheat crop with nitrogen, in an effort to get the crop up and headed toward its optimal y...
27 Oct 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- If the U.S. cattle industry is to make a serious effort in reducing methane emissions, then scientists need to correctly account for the nature of methane itself, a scientist at the University of California-Davis said during a lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this week. Frank Mitloehner, professor and air quality...
27 Oct 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Biden administration issued a proposal to rescind several regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act finalized by the Trump administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service announced on Tuesday. In August 2019, the Trump administration finalized three rules. Most notably, the ...
27 Oct 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to skyrocket into historical price ranges the third week of October 2021, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. All but one of the eight major fertilizers had price increases of 10% or more compared to last month. Leading the way higher is urea, which was up 26% compared to last month. The nitrogen f...
26 Oct 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- With silence coming from the Biden administration for more than a month on the Renewable Fuel Standard, a group of U.S. Republican senators asked the administration for a meeting at the White House to discuss biofuels policy. The ethanol industry has been for more than a month riding a wave of press reports and rumors about p...