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23 Sep 2022
A sweeping ban on equipment used in rodeo events, including ropes, spurs and straps, as well as the events themselves, was largely voted down by California's Alameda County Board of Supervisors. The board did agree to prohibit a ranch rodeo event known as "wild cow milking" where a team tries to get milk from a cow turned loose in an arena. The lan...
23 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- An attempt by the U.S. Department of Justice to block the sale of a large sugar refiner to a competitor failed Friday when a U.S. district judge in Delaware ruled the merger was not anti-competitive. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika in Delaware on Friday ruled that privately held U.S. Sugar Corp. can move ahead with its $315 mil...
23 Sep 2022
BLACKBURN, Mo. (DTN) -- Robert Bonnie, USDA's undersecretary for farm production and conservation, jumped in a tractor and helped plant cereal rye as a cover crop on a Missouri farm on Wednesday. He -- along with other USDA staff, representatives from commodity organizations for corn, soybean and pork producers, and a handful of area farmers --- de...
22 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Leon Vanden Berge operates a small agronomy consulting business, 4 Ag Tech, in south-central Nebraska where he ideally wants to take a laptop out into a field and help farmers with their precision tools for work such as fertilizer applications. It can require a lot of data, often in the cloud, that requires good internet service to e...
21 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Fertilizer prices are varied, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the second week of September 2022. Five of the eight major fertilizers are lower in price compared to a month ago while the remaining three are higher. No fertilizers were appreciably lower or higher. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5...