U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says President Trump made the right call to lift countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco. “We finally got some results of talking about the tariffs on Moroccan phosphate coming into this country,” he said. “At the same Mosaic has 80% of the phosphate market. They don’t need protections.” The Iowa […]
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Cash dairy prices were mostly mixed Thursday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey was unchanged at $0.68. No sales were reported. Forty-pound cheese blocks were up $0.0025 to $1.4325. Five sales
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A south-central Wisconsin farmer says getting involved in commodity organizations completely changed his outlook on agriculture. Eric Wuthrich, who grows corn
