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29 Sep 2021
OMAHA (DTN) --- Two fertilizers saw significant price increases in the third week of September 2021, according to retail prices tracked by DTN. A number of other fertilizer prices moved higher too, although they didn't meet the 5% threshold, which DTN considers significant. Potash was 10% higher compared to last month. The fertilizer had an average...
29 Sep 2021
USDA's Sept. 1 Grain Stocks and Small Grains Annual Summary reports are due out at 11 a.m. CDT Thursday, Sept. 30, and will get a lot of attention. For corn and soybeans, the Sept. 1 inventories will either offer important verification or repudiation of USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) ending stocks estimates. For wheat...
29 Sep 2021
Can U.S. farmers and ranchers take advantage of the benefits precision agriculture promises and still be assured their data is protected? One well-known precision ag business, linking producers and their data with the rest of agriculture, is Trimble. Cory Buchs, director of Trimble's Connected Farm platform, understands concerns farmers have over c...
28 Sep 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Potential yield loss from volunteer corn this year isn't the only worry for farmers hit by the 2020 Midwest derecho. Heavier corn rootworm pressure in 2022 could also be a threat. Northern and western corn rootworm activity could increase next year in areas hit by the derecho, or anywhere corn lodging is an issue, according to...
28 Sep 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to consider their challenge to California's Proposition 12, which would ban the sale of pork from hogs that don't meet the state's new production standards. The ag groups' petition comes on the heels of the U.S. ...