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17 Feb 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to move lower the second week of February 2016, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. Prices for all eight major fertilizers slipped compared to a month earlier, but only two fertilizers were down by any consequence. Anhydrous dropped 5% compared...
17 Feb 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- It may have been his swan song speech at the National Ethanol Conference as U.S. secretary of agriculture, yet Tom Vilsack told industry representatives Tuesday in New Orleans he's hopeful the next administration will continue to give USDA flexibility to lend financial and technical support to t...
17 Feb 2016
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Bobby (Bo) Norris Jr.'s fondest memories were born on the farm. A 30-year-old photograph hanging on a wall in Bo's living room tells the story of one youthful day on the farm outside Society Hill, in Darlington County, S.C. It was 1986, and the South was suffering a bad drought. At the time, South Carol...
16 Feb 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- Could the California Air Resources Board's plan to virtually eliminate the need for liquid fuels in the state in the years to come be the wave of the future for national or global policy aimed at bigger greenhouse gas emission reductions? That's a question ethanol industry and other liquid-fuel ...
16 Feb 2016
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor SARASOTA, Fla. (DTN) -- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) changed Mexican agriculture for the better despite deeply held fears the agreement would erode its corn market, longtime U.S. Grains Council director Julio Hernandez said. The country's corn quota was intended to protect domestic farmers, but it...