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8 Feb 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA is facing a tangle of lawsuits over its 2020 registration of three over-the-top dicamba herbicides, XtendiMax, Engenia and Tavium. Given the many legal steps ahead for them, these lawsuits are unlikely to immediately affect the legal availability of dicamba in 2021, but they could threaten the chemical's use in spray sea...
3 Feb 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for all eight major fertilizers were higher the fourth week of January 2021, with prices for five fertilizers up a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. Urea led the way to the upside and was 10% higher compared to last month with an average price of $405...
3 Feb 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Tom Vilsack's nomination to U.S. agriculture secretary advanced unanimously out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry on Tuesday and will now head to the full Senate for approval. Vilsack, who served for eight years in the Obama administration, would be returning to USDA at a time when agriculture is in ...
3 Feb 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- If you find yourself wishing for a normal corn-growing season this year, Bob Nielsen has bad news. "I think we actually need to redefine normal weather," the longtime Purdue corn agronomist said. "Today, normal weather consists of an unpredictable number of unpredictable extreme weather events, each occurring unpredictably w...
2 Feb 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Six ethanol companies alleging in a lawsuit Archer Daniels Midland manipulated the market have until Wednesday to file a response to ADM's motion to dismiss the case. In November, Wisconsin producers United Wisconsin Grain Producers, Didion Ethanol, Ace Ethanol, Fox River Valley Ethanol, Badger State Ethanol and Iowa producer Pine La...