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14 Feb 2020
By Dan Crummett Progressive Farmer Contributor North Dakota State University (NDSU) researchers and Extension agents in 2015 studied stand variability in farmers' fields over a wide range of conditions and locations. Their findings showed, even within a planter width, the most variable row yielded up to 9 bushels per acre less than the least variab...
14 Feb 2020
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Grain-quality issues that plagued the 2019 growing season continue to haunt farmers in 2020. The evidence can been seen in recent social media posts by farmers who are finding out-of-condition corn in their bins as they begin to move the grain. In many locations across the Corn Belt, the 2019 crop is p...
14 Feb 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Imagine a soybean trait that could save many Midwest soybean growers up to $200 per acre -- in the very first year it was planted. Greg Tylka has a surprise for you. It already exists. The Iowa State nematologist has spent decades tracking soybean cyst nematode's (SCN) growing resistanc...
13 Feb 2020
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor When a younger Greg Vollmer built his shop 10 years ago, he felt like it was about all he could bite off at the time. He soon found the shop too small. "That shop got full very quickly," he said. By 2017, he added two additional work bays, a three-office business center with meeting space and laundry, a...
13 Feb 2020
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The majority of retail fertilizer prices continued their months-long trend of moving lower the first week of February 2020. However, for the first in quite some time, three fertilizers were slightly higher compared to the previous month, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Only one fertilizer had a s...