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11 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. may be fined about $13,500 for an alleged safety violation at its meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where nearly 1,300 employees contracted COVID-19 and four workers died from the virus this spring.The plant was temporarily closed in April for cleaning at the onset of the outbreak, reopen...
10 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Responding to questions from the American Farm Bureau Federation, President Donald Trump's campaign points to the administration's support for farmers and agriculture in regulations, trade and labor, while former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign counters a Biden presidency would repair some of the trade relations that have affecte...
10 Sep 2020
For those who don't have kids in school, or calves to wean, or equipment to grease up before harvest, September could, in theory, be an excellent time for a road trip with beautiful fall foliage and mild weather and thin crowds anywhere you'd want to go.However, in reality, we've experienced the first frost across a broad portion of the United Stat...
10 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the first week of September 2020 are more mixed than in recent weeks. Five of the eight major fertilizers were lower, while the remaining three nutrients were higher.Despite the more diversified prices, no fertilizer was up or down a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more.Th...
9 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Donald Trump reportedly has ordered the EPA to reject 67 so-called gap-year small-refinery exemption requests weeks after Trump said he would speak directly to the agency.In addition to a report by Reuters on Wednesday morning, one industry source told DTN on background Trump gave the agency marching orders. EPA did not res...