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30 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Methane digesters are the new growth wave in renewable energy for agriculture. The stick and the carrot are both at work here. As livestock operations work on ways to manage manure, the changing landscape of environmental regulations and legal challenges -- along with state and federal grants and ...
30 Oct 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Environmental groups want the EPA to change the method used to account for land-use changes associated with the Renewable Fuel Standard, alleging in a petition filed on Tuesday that the agency hasn't followed the law. Under the Energy Independence and Security Act that includes the RFS, crops produced...
29 Oct 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst With combines back in the fields again this week, the bears were back out in force as far as crop prices were concerned. From last Friday's close to Thursday afternoon, December corn was down 6 cents and November soybeans were down 15 cents, also pressured by disappointing exports. In the case of soybeans, we have to kee...
29 Oct 2018
By Dan Crummett Progressive Farmer Contributor The early evening of Aug. 11, 2016, saw Megan King and her husband, Buddy, working calves on horseback near their home in Okeene, in northwest Oklahoma. "We had to move a dead calf," King recalled, "and I was dallying the rope on my saddle horn when I dropped the rope and somehow spooked the horse I wa...
29 Oct 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- Distillers dried grains spot prices from the 40 locations DTN contacted were mixed, but the average price was up $1 per ton at $134 per ton versus two weeks ago for the week ended Oct. 25. Based on the average of prices collected by DTN, the value of DDG relative to corn for the week ended Oct. 25 wa...