With an August deadline looming, EPA released an update this week to its draft Herbicide Strategy. It describes improvements the agency said will increase flexibility and ease of implementation while still protecting threatened and endangered species.
Average retail prices for all eight major fertilizers are higher compared to last month. This marks the third straight week prices for all fertilizers were up. However, only one fertilizer, UAN32, was significantly more expensive.
Nationwide, corn planting reached 6% complete and soybean planting reached 3% as of Sunday, April 14, both slightly ahead of the five-year averages. Winter wheat conditions were rated 55% good to excellent, down slightly from the previous week.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke Monday to the North American Agricultural Journalists (NAAJ) annual meeting. Vilsack's talk with reporters touched on the farm bill, the relationship with China, highly pathogenic avian influenza and the federal greenhouse gas model.
Agriculture and biofuels groups said the Biden administration's new vehicle emissions rule leaves ethanol and other biofuels out of the picture in cutting pollution.
