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13 Mar 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ALEXANDRIA, Va. (DTN) -- The inspector general of the EPA is planning to look into whether EPA acted properly when it registered dicamba in 2016 and 2018, as well as review states' use of Section 24(c) labels, often used for dicamba in recent years. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) functions as an inte...
12 Mar 2020
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Conventional wisdom (or at least the conventional wisdom among old cattle traders) says that when the stock market is doing well, cattle prices also tend to rise. Certainly we've seen this relationship, in mostly the opposite direction, during the last few weeks while equity traders have been panicking about th...
12 Mar 2020
By Dana MantiniDTN Senior Analyst The March World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, as expected, had zero changes in U.S. ending stocks, while world numbers provided little market-moving news. Perhaps the most notable changes were a 1 million metric ton (mmt) increase in both Argentine and Brazilian soybean production, furthe...
12 Mar 2020
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices are mixed, according to prices tracked by DTN in the first week of March, 2020. For the first time in several months, prices split down the middle, with half coming in higher and half lower. Four fertilizers were lower in price compared to last month but none were down a subs...
11 Mar 2020
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The Agriculture Department would stop the movement of all swine for 72 hours if there is a detection of the African swine fever (ASF) in the United States, Agriculture Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Greg Ibach announced Friday. ASF is a highly contagious and dead...