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28 Jul 2022
This article was originally posted at 9:08 a.m. CDT on Thursday, July 28. It was last updated with additional information at 3:49 p.m. CDT on Thursday, July 28. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers will see an injection of $20 billion in funds for climate-smart agricultural practices to help lower emissions from agriculture under the climate deal reached by S...
27 Jul 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A lawsuit that alleges Smithfield Foods Inc. misled consumers about the state of the meat supply chain and packing plant worker safety during COVID-19 will continue, as a superior court judge in Washington, D.C., denied a Smithfield motion to dismiss the case. Smithfield is one of the largest pork-processing companies in the ...
27 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to be mostly lower, led by urea, the third week of July 2022, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. This march to less expensive prices has been a market feature for two consecutive months now. Once again, all but one of the eight major fertilizers are lower compared to last month, with only one fer...
26 Jul 2022
All eyes are on the Federal Reserve this week as the Federal Open Markets Committee deliberates whether to raise interest rates by 75 basis points, like it did in June, or if it follows a more aggressive path like the Bank of Canada did earlier this month and issues a 100-basis-point increase. For farmers, higher interest rates make borrowing mone...
25 Jul 2022
This article was originally posted at 3:07 p.m. CDT on Monday, July 25. It was last updated with additional information at 3:47 p.m. CDT on Monday, July 25. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Heat and a lack of moisture in much of the country took a toll on U.S. crop conditions last week, with good-to-excellent condition ratings for corn, soybeans and spring wheat ...