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15 Jan 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Profit margins continued to fall at DTN's hypothetical ethanol plant as soaring corn prices offset higher ethanol prices at the 50-million-gallon Neeley Biofuels plant. The DTN National Corn Index has spiked from about $3.75 per bushel in early October to $4.99 on Wednesday. The March futures price on the Chicago Board of Trade -- th...
15 Jan 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- A new lawsuit alleges crop input manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers coordinated a boycott of online sales platforms such as Farmers Business Network and AgVend to prevent greater price transparency, a move the lawsuit argues amounts to collusion to keep prices artificially high in violation of antitrust laws. The la...
14 Jan 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- EPA's request to conduct an Endangered Species Act review of the insecticide sulfoxaflor was rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, in a ruling handed down on Tuesday. The agency was sued in 2019 by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity for failing to conduct a revie...
14 Jan 2021
Back in the fall, there were 4.66 billion bushels (bb) of soybeans in this country: 525 million bushels (mb) left over from the previous year and 4.135 bb of newly grown beans. There was no single moment in time when all the new beans were harvested out of the fields before some of the rest were being gobbled up by processing plants, but if there h...
14 Jan 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers in Mississippi are hoping moves by EPA to advance a pumping project off the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers will mitigate repeated flooding that has affected the area over the past decade. But environmental groups are looking to block the long-standing Army Corps' of Engineers project from going forward. The Yazoo Backwater Area...