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26 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- In a shake-up for agricultural commodity companies, Viterra Limited announced Wednesday it is acquiring most of the assets of rival Gavilon from Japan's Marubeni Corp. for $1.125 billion. The move helps Marubeni get out of what turned out to be a bad purchase when it bought Gavilon nearly a decade ago. Viterra and its parent companie...
26 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Climate trends and agronomic improvements were the overwhelming factors leading to higher corn yields on farmland in Nebraska from 2005 to 2018, while improvements in genetic traits accounted for a small percentage of yield gains, a new study by the University of Nebraska found. Most yield studies have focused largely on impr...
26 Jan 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most retail fertilizer prices were slightly higher the third week of January 2022. But as was the case last week, one fertilizer was lower in price looking back a month. Seven of the eight major fertilizers were slightly higher, although none were up a considerable amount. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. DAP...
25 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A California court halted the enforcement of Proposition 12 on Monday, moving back enforcement of the animal-welfare law to six months after rules are finalized. The California Department of Food and Agriculture is more than two years late in finalizing rules for the law that places animal-welfare restrictions on pork produce...
25 Jan 2022
By Susan Winsor Progressive Farmer Contributor Greg Entinger, New Prague, Minnesota, gave himself a huge pay raise when he switched from conventional tillage to strip-till in 2015. The extra money in his pocket comes from fewer trips across fields, reduced fertilizer rates and selling off unneeded equipment. As a process engineer, Entinger's day jo...