Railroad Strike Averted
Friday, December 2, 2022 11:27AM CST
The legislation signing and brief comments at the White House ends a week of high-stakes drama in Washington that saw Congress immediately act in bipartisan fashion to prevent 115,000 or so rail workers from potentially shutting down major sectors of the economy, including agriculture.
PPP Loans Fueled Fraud From Fake Farms
Friday, December 2, 2022 11:14AM CST
While hundreds of thousands of farms legitimately received aid through PPP loans in 2020 and 2021, there was also a lot of fraud. Potato farms in Palm Beach, Florida, orange orchards in Minnesota, and cattle operations on a New Jersey pier were some of the fake farms that collected PPP money.
EPA's RFS Proposal Bullish on Biofuels
Thursday, December 1, 2022 11:18AM CST
EPA's multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard volume proposal would expand corn-based ethanol and biomass-based diesel volumes, while expanding overall biofuels blending by about 2 billion gallons by 2025.
DTN Retail Fertilizer Trends
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 8:36AM CST
Fertilizer prices for the third week of November 2022 are once again mostly lower with six fertilizers down while the remaining two fertilizers are higher compared to last month.
