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15 Sep 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- There's something almost shocking about the way a crop readies itself for harvest. You do everything possible to keep it growing all summer and -- bam -- a switch flips and it's time to push for the finish line. Kellie Blair is watching it play out on her family farm near Dayton, Iowa. As the milk line moves down the kernel t...
15 Sep 2021
Don't be so quick to discard the seed tag that comes with each seed bag or box. "A lot of people are ordering seed earlier and earlier because of sales incentives," Michigan State University Extension entomologist Chris DiFonzo noted. "If you ordered seed in October, and it got shipped to you in April, that's a long time to try to remember exactly ...
15 Sep 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to show small increases the first week of September 2021, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. However, it's been four weeks since any fertilizer posted significant price changes, which DTN designates as 5% or greater. All eight major fertilizers were higher compared to a month earlier, with potash...
14 Sep 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Gro Intelligence's national corn and soybean yield models barely budged in the month following the DTN Digital Yield Tour, with each dropping by only 0.1 bushel per acre. USDA's estimates over the same timeframe increased and moved closer to Gro's. As of Sept. 13, Gro Intelligence pegged the national average corn yield at...
13 Sep 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Members of the House Agriculture Committee rose early Monday to vote along party lines to advance nearly $66 billion in spending for research, rural development and forestry programs that will be rolled into the potential $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. The vote, including a series of amendment roll-call votes that also fel...