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3 Mar 2022
John Deere's latest advances in sprayer technology are viewed as a journey by company officials. That journey continued last fall when it invited a group of ag media to a Georgia cotton field for an advanced look of its latest introduction: See & Spray Ultimate. (Information on the sprayer was embargoed until now.) It's the next generation of the c...
3 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- A global fertilizer market that has already seen many challenges in the past 18 months will see added pressure from the Russia-Ukraine military conflict, according to The Fertilizer institute (TFI). However, the exact magnitude is unknown for now. TFI said in news release Wednesday it was concerned about the destabilizing situation o...
3 Mar 2022
By Dan Crummett, Progressive Farmer Contributor During the past several years, irrigation equipment manufacturers have been busy reinventing sprinkler systems to serve more as "hired hands" than just an efficient way to water crops. From running self-diagnostics to reduce downtime and repairs to monitoring the crops in the field, the new generation...
2 Mar 2022
As the war in Ukraine entered its sixth day, it seems cattlemen can cling to only one truth from the market -- if anything negative flashes before our eyes (fire, viruses, cyberattacks, war) the cattle market will trade lower. One (because let's be honest there are many) of the frustrating things about the cattle market is that, unlike other commod...
2 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices were evenly mixed for the last full week of February, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the first time in more than a year, prices for four fertilizers were slightly lower, while prices for the other four were slightly higher compared to a year ago. DTN designates a significant move as anythin...