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5 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- In one of his first trips as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Michael Regan met Tuesday with a group of Iowa ethanol producers who stressed the potential for biofuels lowering both emissions and cancer-causing chemicals. Regan, along with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, toured the Lincolnway Energy ethano...
5 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- While prices for all eight of the major fertilizers were higher at the end of April compared to a month earlier, none were significantly higher, which DTN designates as 5% or more. It's the second week in a row prices showed more muted moves higher after several months of rising sharply. For the fourth week of April 2021, DAP had an ...
5 May 2021
Let's start by agreeing that $7 corn isn't necessarily a great thing. It isn't great for livestock feeders, it isn't great for ethanol plants and it isn't great for drivers planning summer road trips. And because $7 corn isn't great for all these customers and customers' customers, it's not that great for corn farmers, either, who may lose some cus...
4 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommends leaving the Dakota Access Pipeline open while it conducts an environmental analysis that could last into March 2022. The Corps stated this position in a court filing in federal court on a case that could eventually lead to the pipeline's closing. The Corps of Engineers provided a st...
4 May 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Ian Plagge will apply 240 pounds of nitrogen (N) per acre this year on corn-on-corn acres and 190 pounds per acre on corn-after-soybeans. Crunching the numbers on nitrogen applications is becoming increasingly important for the Lattimer, Iowa, farmer and others, as nitrogen costs ratchet skyward. Determining ideal nitrogen rat...