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13 Jul 2022
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- How do farmers spell relief? It's called rain that arrives when it is desperately needed. July ushered in blast furnace conditions for many of DTN's Farm Advisers, a group of trusted farmers and ranchers who check in monthly by email or phone. It was just one more blow for many, who experienced a wide range of weather issues ...
13 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices continued to be less expensive than last month during the first week of July 2022, according to fertilizer sellers surveyed by DTN. This lower trend has been in place for six weeks now. All but one of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to last month, with only one fertilizer down sub...
12 Jul 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A Minnesota grand jury indicted Cottonwood County farmer James Clayton Wolf on an alleged conspiracy to falsely sell $46 million in non-GMO corn and soybeans as organic, according to the indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The indictment alleges Wolf sold grain without a grain-buyer's li...
12 Jul 2022
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:05 a.m. CDT. It was updated at 12:26 p.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- With slightly higher corn acres, USDA on Tuesday bumped up corn production slightly to 14.5 billion bushels (bb), but lowered soybean production by 135 million bushels (mb) to 4.5 bb. USDA increased Russia's wheat production to 81.5 mil...
12 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Acreage in the overall Conservation Reserve Program will increase by a net 1.7 million acres in 2022 after USDA saw a bumper enrollment in the CRP Grasslands signup. All told, USDA should come out of fiscal year 2022 with 23.8 million acres enrolled in overall CRP, the largest acreage in the program since fiscal year 2016. USDA annou...