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12 Aug 2021
By Todd Neeley, DTN Staff Reporter, and Russ Quinn, DTN Staff Reporter LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Around 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2020, Morey Hill and his wife, Rhonda, watched out their kitchen window what they thought would be "typical Midwest weather" from a darkened sky to the west of their home near Madrid, Iowa. A deck on the west side of their ran...
12 Aug 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Since June, farm bureaus in all 50 states and Puerto Rico have been asking the Biden administration to do something to control the flow of immigrants into the United States through the southern border. On Wednesday, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said the situation has worsened for farmers and ranchers...
12 Aug 2021
By DTN Analysts This article was originally posted at 11:06 a.m. CST. It was updated at 11:37 a.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- The National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates a national average corn yield of 174.6 bushels per acre (bpa), which is down 4.9 bpa from July, toward the low end of pre-report expectations. On soybeans, they expect yields to ...
11 Aug 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mostly higher the first week of August 2021, led by potash, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Six of the eight major fertilizers were higher compared to last month, with only potash up a significant amount, which DTN designates at 5% or more. Potash was up 13% compared to the prior...
11 Aug 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (DTN) -- The meeting room was packed Tuesday as the National Cattlemen's Beef Association held its Live Cattle Marketing Committee meeting, but a meeting that took five hours to slog through in 2020 wrapped up in less than an hour this year. It was one of the quietest openings for a sequel when much of the summer leading up to the ...