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24 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA has extended the public comment period on the draft biological evaluations for atrazine, propazine and simazine by another 45 days past the Jan. 5, 2021, deadline, the agency announced on Wednesday. In November 2020, EPA released its draft biological evaluations for atrazine, propazine and simazine for public review and comme...
24 Dec 2020
When I look over the last year -- through the dips and dives the market has taken -- I find myself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions begging for clarity as to what 2021 may hold. During the last year, I've hunted, searched and exhausted my resources to the point of no end in order to find some meaningful correlation between an event in ...
24 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The latest COVID-19 economic relief package may be heading toward a presidential veto. President Donald Trump on Tuesday indicated in a speech posted on Twitter that he doesn't support the $900 billion legislation that includes relief to agriculture and biofuels. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told agriculture journalists Wednesday m...
23 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices were higher across the board for the third week of December 2020. It's the second week in a row that all eight major fertilizers were higher than the previous month. Three fertilizers were up a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more. MAP, potash and anhydrous were all 7% more expensive compare...
23 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- In reapproving registration of glyphosate in January 2020, EPA ignored its own scientific finding that the herbicide may harm nearly all endangered species, environmental and farmworker groups argue in an opening brief last week in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. The Rural Coalitio...