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19 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A federal court on Wednesday vacated three small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard granted by the outgoing Trump administration on Jan. 19, according to a court ruling. The EPA on May 3 asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver to nullify the SREs. The court sent the exemptions back to th...
19 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN continue their march upward, as seven of eight major fertilizers showed month-over-month increases based on a survey of sellers in the second week of May. For the second straight week prices for UAN28 and UAN32 were significantly higher than the previous month. DTN designates significan...
19 May 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- How much corn could a cutworm cut if a cutworm could cut corn? Growers across the Midwest and Eastern Corn Belt will find out, as temperatures finally start climbing high enough for black cutworms to emerge from the eggs laid in the soil earlier this spring. Entomologists from Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Pe...
19 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite helping advance farmers' understanding of soil health, conservation, water quality and carbon sequestration over the past seven years, the National Corn Growers Association is shutting down its flagship sustainability program, the Soil Health Partnership, at the end of the month. The partnership was one of the first moves by ...
18 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The federal government and farmers and other landowners along the Missouri River basin filed notices of appeal of a ruling handed down from a federal claims court related to repeated flooding in the basin, according to court documents. In early February, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims awarded St. Joseph, Missouri, farmer Ro...