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16 Oct 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The Southern Plains winter wheat crop is off to a good start thanks to plentiful moisture. That's a promising sign for those wanting to graze wheat this fall and winter. The economics of grazing wheat looks to be positive as producers buy calves and prepare to turn then out to graze. Higher feeder calf...
16 Oct 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst It's been a tough year for farmers in Minnesota, South Dakota, northern Iowa, northeastern North Dakota and western Wisconsin. Many of these areas endured late planting due to April snows, record-setting rainfall in early summer, hailstorms, and then rain and snow delaying harvest. Most of the crop was looking...
15 Oct 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the first week of October continue to show the slow and steady price increases, a pattern that's been in place for several months. For the fourth week in a row, all eight major fertilizer prices are higher compared to a month earlier. As has also been the c...
15 Oct 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The tumbling tumbleweed just got a little bit harder to control. Weed scientists at Kansas State University have confirmed populations of kochia in western Kansas that show cross resistance to both dicamba and fluroxypyr (Starane Ultra). Dicamba resistance in kochia isn't new -- it wa...
15 Oct 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The next time you head to the fields to check if they are harvest-ready, consider bringing a soil probe along to test for soybean cyst nematode (SCN). The SCN Coalition, which first launched in 1997, is urging growers to put SCN back on their priority list -- and the first step is testin...