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29 Mar 2019
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2019, was 74.3 million head. This was up 2% from March 1, 2018, but down slightly from Dec. 1, 2018, USDA reported on Thursday. Breeding inventory, at 6.35 million head, was up 2% from last year, and up slightly from the previous quarter. Market hog inventory, at 6...
29 Mar 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Confined animal feeding operations and other farming operations in the Raccoon River watershed in west-central Iowa would be required to implement numerical nutrient runoff standards, the state would have to implement a plan to restore the watershed, and CAFO construction or expansion would be halted ...
28 Mar 2019
By Brian L. MilneDTN Refined Fuels Editor ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (DTN) -- The Energy Information Administration (EIA) Wednesday reported inventories of propane/propylene held in U.S. storage rose 4.3 million barrel (bbl) in the week-ended June 22 to 58.4 million bbl, with domestic exports down significantly from the week prior and stocks in Gulf Coast ...
28 Mar 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer price movement continued to be mixed the third week of March 2019, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. This marked the fourth week in a row in which at least some prices declined. Prices for half of the eight major fertilizers were slightly lower compared to last month. DAP had an...
28 Mar 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst When we look at a chart of fertilizer prices plotted alongside a chart of corn prices, we immediately spot a pattern and assume there is a strong, predictable relationship. Prices were relatively high for all of the above when the U.S. planted upwards of 95 million acres (ma) of corn. From July 2012 to July 201...