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3 Aug 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Great Plains wheat growers got a painful refresher course on the importance of the Golden Rule this year -- and neighborly responsibility. Kent Eddy was forced to abandon nearly 20% of his wheat acres near Syracuse, Kansas, this year. The fields left standing averaged around 20 bushels p...
3 Aug 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Some retail fertilizers -- mainly nitrogen fertilizers -- continued to see significant price decreases the fourth week of July 2017, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. Once again, prices for all eight of the major fertilizers were lower compared to a month earlier. Only two fertilizer...
2 Aug 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway said today his committee will begin work on the next farm bill within the next eight weeks, noting that he wants to get it on the House floor this year. Conaway announced at the beginning of a farm bill listening session in San Ang...
2 Aug 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- While American families are still hauling their RVs around the country trying to squeeze in one or two more lake trips for the summer, it's also apparently farm-bill road trip season. The House Agriculture Committee has its road trip, labeled "Conservations in the Field," which included a field ...
2 Aug 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Heading into August, we have had plenty to talk about in grains this year. But the king of price moves so far has been Minneapolis wheat, where drought in the northwestern Plains wreaked havoc with this year's spring wheat crops. The shorthand explanation is that drought caused spring wheat prices to go higher. That is ...