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19 Aug 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Ryan Wieck is hoping healthy hooves make for happy cows. This past week, the Texas Panhandle farmer enlisted the help of a hoof-trimming service and treated his entire beef herd to bovine pedicures. "It's so dry here that we have cracks in the soil 2 inches wide, and that's rough on cow hooves. Plus, I've been supplement feed...
19 Aug 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Few souls would ever willingly spend their birthday sorting through wilted soybean leaves and splitting sickly stems, but it's a good thing Daren Mueller is one of them. That's how the Iowa State University plant pathologist discovered that, yes, many of those wilting yellow soybean patches surfacing across Iowa this month a...
18 Aug 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices continued to rise the second week of August 2021, once again led by potash, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Like last week, six of the eight major fertilizers were higher compared to last month, with only potash up a significant amount, which DTN designates 5% or more. Potash was up 13% com...
18 Aug 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Ryan Wieck is hoping healthy hooves make for happy cows. This past week, the Texas Panhandle farmer enlisted the help of a hoof-trimming service and treated his entire beef herd to bovine pedicures. "It's so dry here that we have cracks in the soil 2 inches wide, and that's rough on cow hooves. Plus, I've been supplement feed...
18 Aug 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The summer growing season may be heading into its final stages, but some insects are still hard at work. Fall armyworms are marching in unusually high numbers, threatening a host of crops, initially in southern states and now farther north. In the meantime, sugarcane aphids are picking up in sorghum fields in the Southern Pl...