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21 Jul 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- From the Carolinas to Texas, the cotton bollworm is leading an assault on Bt cotton again this year. Growing resistance to the Bt traits found in the most common cotton varieties is proving problematic as southern states face another large population of the pest, said North Carolina State...
21 Jul 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- When crop scouts hit the road next week for the Wheat Quality Council's annual Hard Spring Wheat and Durum Tour, they'll take plenty of water, said tour organizer and council president Dave Green. It's a pity they can't take enough for the wheat crop. After a week of temperatures in the...
20 Jul 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Grain markets played a huge role in human history. The very formation of early nation states and all the "great" early civilizations -- the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Han Dynasty -- were only possible once humans started growing grain, and the history lessons all take it for granted that this is a good thing...
20 Jul 2017
By Lin TanDTN Markets Editor DES MOINES, Iowa (DTN) -- Seven Chinese soybean buyers signed agreements here last week to buy 12.5 million metric tons (460 million bushels) of 2017-2018 U.S. soybeans, the second-largest deal after the 2015 agreement. "This is a deal of 5 billion U.S. dollars," said Xiaoping Zhang, China country director of the U.S. ...
20 Jul 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- For the second straight week, retail fertilizer prices are showing significant movement after five months of holding mostly steady, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. Prices for all eight of the major fertilizers were lower the second week of July 2017 compared to a month earlier. As th...