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23 Mar 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A group of Nebraska grain providers to Abengoa Bioenergy ethanol plants is not happy with the recent court approval of $41 million of financing the company obtained as part of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings ongoing in a United States bankruptcy court. Nebraska grain companies caught up in the bank...
23 Mar 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- When it comes to keeping his non-genetically engineered corn as pure as possible, western Illinois farmer Mike Stewart knows the drill. For a dozen years, he and his family have carefully isolated their corn fields near Monmouth, Illinois, cleaned out planters, combines, bins and trucks ...
22 Mar 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Recent legal action has put neonicotinoids in the spotlight once again. This week, Minnesota's Department of Agriculture compensated two beekeepers after investigators found that neonicotinoid-filled dust from a neighboring cornfield damaged their hives last spring. Although research l...
22 Mar 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- While the future of agriculture across the Ogallala Aquifer remains a long-term question, which a new consortium of researchers at major universities across the Plains will study. The Ogallala is the largest freshwater aquifer in the world. It serves as the main source of public water for Nebraska an...
22 Mar 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The majority of retail fertilizer prices edged higher the third week of March as demand ramps up for the spring fertilizer application season, according to prices tracked by DTN. In recent weeks some prices accelerated, but this is the first week most of the major fertilizers strengthened in price. Fi...