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27 Apr 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be fairly steady with no significant moves either higher or lower the third week of April 2017, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. Of the eight major fertilizers, five are slightly higher in price compared to a month earlier. Those are DAP,...
27 Apr 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst In 2017, if farmers see a neat or funny image that they'd like to share with their friends, they save it on their smartphones and forward it along. I swear that half of the Snapchat photos I've received over the past month showed cute little baby calves, one of which was memorably stuck in a huge badger hole. T...
27 Apr 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- If for some reason a new farm bill isn't completed in 2017, leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees said on Tuesday they're hopeful they can at least help farm-bill programs for dairy and cotton through the current budget appropriations process. One thing is abundantly clear, the n...
26 Apr 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Last week was mostly bearish for grain prices, but I hope you caught DTN's article by Staff Reporter Todd Neeley, "Biodiesel Probe Moves" (http://tinyurl.com/…). In it, Neeley explained how the U.S. Commerce Department is looking into allegations that Argentina and Indonesia were dumping subsidized biodiesel in the U.S. t...
26 Apr 2017
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- Last week was a quiet week -- if you don't count the sound of rain on the roof -- DTN View From the Cab farmer Zack Rendel of Miami, Oklahoma, told DTN late Sunday evening. "Last Saturday night we got an inch of rain. Monday we just worked on combines. Now they're ready for wheat and...