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8 Sep 2015
Corn harvest is already underway in some areas and you're probably seeing articles and advertisements on ways to help digest corn residue. The introduction of Bt corn with European corn borer resistance, improvements in plant health, greater stalk strength and routine use of fungicides and foliar nutritionals have all increased stalk strength and m...
8 Sep 2015
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Famers are feeling pretty glum about current economic conditions, but they expect commodity and input prices are going to stabilize, buoying overall sentiment. The latest reading of the DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agriculture Confidence Index came in at 99.4. An index value of 100 is considered neutra...
4 Sep 2015
By Jim PatricoProgressive Farmer Editor DECATUR, Ill.--The crowds were still there this week in the crammed pathways and stubbled demo fields of the Farm Progress Show. And record numbers of exhibitors were still greeting casual questioners as well as serious shoppers. What was missing was the sense that -- as in some recent years -- a lot of major...
4 Sep 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Finishing steers can be made a little more economical without sacrificing performance, according to a recent University of Nebraska feeding trial that examined the effects of replacing corn in finishing beef diets with a newly developed, treated corn stover/distillers grain pelleted product. Acco...
3 Sep 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- There is good news for livestock producers: Alfalfa crops this year should provide quality hay and sufficient supplies for the winter. Although some alfalfa-producing areas struggled with wet spring weather that hampered early cutting, the majority of producers seem optimistic for both the amount ...