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4 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The average price for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) from the 40 locations DTN contacted with spot offers for the week ended Dec. 3 was $202 per ton, up $7 on average versus two weeks ago. DDG prices continue to push higher and are currently up approximately $15 versus the average for the month of November. Slower ethanol pla...
3 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Net cash farm income for 2020 is expected to increase 43.1% from 2019 totals, driven heavily by higher government payments, putting net farm income at the highest level since 2013 once adjusted for inflation. USDA's Economic Research Service on Wednesday updated farm-sector income and expenses, showing stronger overall profit measure...
3 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Syngenta has filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit that challenges EPA's approval of its herbicide, atrazine, and two related herbicides, propazine and simazine. That lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco in November, by the Rural Coalition, Pesticide Action Network North Ame...
3 Dec 2020
Life is full of eerie little coincidences: You dream of a long-forgotten friend one night, then they call you the next day -- or you just happen to notice your 10 millimeter wrench laying on the wrong workbench the day before it's urgently needed for a repair. I have friends who would argue these aren't just coincidences; there are deeper, more mea...
2 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Growth Energy plans to file a lawsuit against EPA for missing the Nov. 30, 2020, statutory deadline to finalize 2021 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes. In a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Tuesday, Growth Energy general counsel Joseph Kakesh said the agency has 60 days to finalize the rule before a legal challenge is brou...