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6 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mostly lower the fourth week of June 2022, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. This trend has been in place for five weeks now. Prices for all but one of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to last month, with only one fertilizer down considerably. DTN designates a signif...
1 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Republican members of Congress on Friday introduced legislation to curb China's investment in U.S. agriculture as plans for a Chinese-owned corn mill in North Dakota are drawing more scrutiny. A Chinese conglomerate, Fufeng Group, announced last fall that the company would build a 25-million-bushel corn wet milling plant in Grand For...
1 Jul 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA is set to implement label changes to the insecticides malathion, chlorpyrifos and diazinon, after the agency announced on Thursday it had received a final biological opinion from the National Marine Fisheries Service as part of an ongoing Endangered Species Act review. This first round of actions taken by EPA affects 75 e...
30 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The EPA is proposing several label changes to atrazine products, designed to reduce runoff of the herbicide from farm fields. The agency released a proposal for public comment on Thursday that would place new restrictions on atrazine use to protect aquatic plant species. In December 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Nin...
30 Jun 2022
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:05 a.m. CDT. It was updated at 12:17 p.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Thursday released its Acreage and June 1 Quarterly Grain Stocks reports. Farmers planted 89.9 million acres of corn in 2022 and 88.3 million acres of soybeans. The corn estimate is higher than USDA's March estimate, while soybea...