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1 Apr 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst The DTN average dried distillers grains, or DDG, spot price was unchanged from one week ago, at $92, for the week ended March 30. Of the 39 locations from which DTN collects spot prices, five bids were $5 higher, one bid was $5 lower and the balance of the prices were unchanged. The value of DDG relative to corn for...
31 Mar 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff ReporterandBy Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As Southern Plains ranchers scramble to pick up the pieces from wildfires that charred more than 1 million acres and left death and destruction in their wake, farm communities across the country have been coming to the rescue. Farmers and ranchers in southwest Kansas ...
30 Mar 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- As expected, the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday voted to send President Donald Trump's nomination of Sonny Perdue as Agriculture secretary to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation. The vote occurred off the Senate floor in the midst of floor votes. Floor action on ...
30 Mar 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices were still mostly higher the third week of March 2017, but this climb higher appears to be slowing, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. And, for the first time in five weeks, not all of the fertilizers had higher prices. Seven of the eight major fertilizers were...
30 Mar 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst In 1701, Jethro Tull invented the horse-drawn seed drill, used for evenly planting straight furrows of small grains in England, and later in Europe, America and the rest of the world. And here I was, thinking all along that "Jethro Tull" was just a progressive rock flautist! There have long been some basic, hu...