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28 Aug 2017
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Personally, I find the tail-end of August to be a real bummer. Sometimes the quicksand of livestock prices sinking deeper and deeper into the third quarter might seem a good candidate to explain my late-summer blues. Without a doubt, pre-Labor Day prospects for cattle and hogs this year look about as promisi...
25 Aug 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency originally proposed a much higher cellulosic ethanol number in its Renewable Fuel Standard proposal sent to the Office of Management and Budget in June, interagency review documents posted to the docket for the latest RFS volumes show. In that proposal, the EP...
25 Aug 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency originally proposed a much higher cellulosic ethanol number in its Renewable Fuel Standard proposal sent to the Office of Management and Budget in June, interagency review documents posted to the docket for the latest RFS volumes show. In that proposal, the EPA...
25 Aug 2017
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist August makes for a lot of interest in yield estimates. Recent USDA and other estimates have many of us wondering how many bushels are out there. With all the hot and dry weather my area of eastern Nebraska experienced from late May to mid-August, the loss of corn yield has been on my mind all summer. Wh...
24 Aug 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As the agriculture economy continues to struggle, members of the National Farmers Union recently decided they wanted the national organization to initiate a stronger push for the expansion of biofuels. The NFU responded this week by hiring veteran Washington biofuels lobbyist Anne Steckel, principal ...