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4 Nov 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- As crop input prices continue to soar, Mike Starkey intends to change his soybean fertility program to make every dollar count in 2022. The Brownsburg, Indiana, farmer will likely forgo broadcast fertilizer applications unless soil tests show they're needed. Most nutrient costs have doubled or more in the last year, according ...
3 Nov 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Higher prices at harvest could limit potential crop insurance payouts for the 2021 growing season for all except those with extreme yield losses. The average price of the December corn futures contract during the month of October was $5.37 per bushel, while the November soybean contract averaged $12.30 per bushel during t...
3 Nov 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Bayer Crop Science's carbon program that has more than 1,000 farmers already enrolled will receive a big boost from an agreement with CHS Inc. announced this week. The agreement will make the program that pays producers for their carbon-smart practices accessible to thousands of additional farmers and ranchers. CHS is owned b...
3 Nov 2021
MT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The retail fertilizer price spike continues, with seven of the eight major fertilizers tracked by DTN posting significant gains and one setting a new record. UAN32 cost an average of $522 per ton in the fourth week of October, the highest in DTN's 13 years of gathering bids. While the nitrogen fertilizer increased 18% in p...
2 Nov 2021
It is starting to feel like fall. After October, which had widespread temperature departures of four to six degrees Fahrenheit above normal east of the Rockies, November has quickly reminded us which season we are in. A strong cold front moved into the Plains and Midwest during the Halloween weekend and has continued to slip farther south early thi...