Just three months removed from a federal court decision that vacated the registrations of three over-the-top dicamba products, EPA announced a public comment period for a Bayer dicamba product the company hopes is available for 2025.
A provision in the Senate Agriculture Committee Democratic framework for a new farm bill would reduce the income eligibility for commodity programs from $900,000 adjusted gross income (AGI) down to $700,000 AGI. The House plan would increase eligibility if producers make at least 75% of their income from farming or ranching.
The Commerce Department announced plans to raise tariffs on phosphorous fertilizers imported from Morocco from 2.12% to 14.21%. This continues a battle over phosphate import tariffs going back to 2021.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is ready to hear oral arguments this summer in a lawsuit filed by former eastern Washington rancher Cody Easterday.
For suppliers of used cooking oil and tallow and producers of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, Tuesday's SAF announcement was good news. For U.S. producers of corn and soybeans, the pathway to this new market is not so clear.
With less drought showing up from Texas north through the Dakotas, the forage outlook is positive with the possibility of more production than in recent dry growing seasons. There are some dry areas and expanding drought could be the one factor to cloud the sunny forage outlook.
Seven of the eight major fertilizers are priced higher compared to last month. One fertilizer, potash, was slightly lower in price. None of the eight major fertilizers were up a significant amount from a month ago.
After months of talks and delays, leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees each laid out separate farm-bill frameworks Wednesday with goals of pushing Congress to pass a new bill this year. The proposals still suffer from the same divisions over nutrition and conservation that have dogged the committees since early 2023.
A collection of groups and interests immediately weighed in after the U.S. Treasury Department released its guidance Tuesday for U.S. biofuel producers to receive sustainable aviation fuel 40B tax credits. Some groups were encouraged by the guidance while others raised concerns over farmers having to use cover crops to qualify.
Overall ethanol production in the United States averaged 954,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the week ended April 19.
For the fourth consecutive week, average retail prices for all eight major fertilizers were higher compared to last month, though none were up significantly.
A derecho crossed several states in the Midwest in 2020 causing billions of dollars of damage, including to grain bins. Research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) might lead to new bin designs that might allow grain storage structures to better withstand natural disasters.