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17 Sep 2021
The U.S. 2021 crop season is well into the homestretch. Harvest is underway. Very warm to hot daytime conditions now tail off with the earlier onset of evening. Neighborhood conversation features the observation that it "smells like fall." Anyone reading this understands that phrase. It's been a season of wide variability in temperatures and rainfa...
17 Sep 2021
They are often called "The Big Four." BASF, Bayer, Corteva and Syngenta now dominate the sales of agricultural seeds in the United States. Other firms, including at least 100 independent seed companies, also play a vital role in the industry. DTN/Progressive Farmer has been running a special series called It Starts With Seed to help farmers start t...
16 Sep 2021
I drove by my local Wendy's in southeast Michigan the other day, and I had to turn the car around just to take a picture of their sign. They were announcing an open house for job interviews with pay up to $22.00 per hour, much higher than our local average for fast-food restaurants of $14-$16 per hour. In my 20 years of working in human resources a...
16 Sep 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Those scraggly waterhemp plants or that patch of ragweed poking above your soybeans might not look like much right now, but your combine is the perfect machine to help them realize their potential. "Combines are just really, really good weed-seed spreaders," warned Jared Goplen, an Extension crops educator at the University ...
16 Sep 2021
By Logan Garcia, Market Reporter - Fertecon, Agribusiness Intelligence, IHS Markit The following is a breakdown of wholesale prices and trends of the various fertilizers for August and early September 2021. AMMONIA Domestic: The U.S. ammonia market remained muted with little activity or market chatter to speak of. With a few nitrogen plants still f...