Entries for March 2018
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8 Mar 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst It is only the second day of March 2018 and already corn prices have had a lot to talk about. FOB corn prices, in particular, have been trending higher since December both in Brazil and New Orleans with help from ongoing concerns of drought in Argentina. Just this week, FOB corn prices in Brazil and New Orleans jumped 23...
8 Mar 2018
By Barb Baylor AndersonProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor Larry Rhodes has always relied on Mother Nature and patience to restore the timber on his Angus seedstock cow/calf operation. Conservation is a passion for this Carlinville, Illinois, producer. So, it was an easy decision about six years ago to add another tool to his timber-management p...
8 Mar 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to trend higher the fourth week of February 2018, according to retailers tracked by DTN. All eight of the major fertilizers again are higher compared to last month, but only one fertilizer was up a significant amount. Nitrogen fertilizer UAN32 was 7% more expensive co...
8 Mar 2018
March 8, 2018 Portland Price Trends 03-01-17 08-01-17 02-01-18 03-01-18 03-08-18 #1 SWW (bu) 4.90 5.20 5.42 5.78 5.70 White Club 5.05 5.30 5.42 5.78 5.70 DNS 14% 6.96 8.38 7.41 7.58 7.52 HRW 11.5% 5.52 5.65 6.17 6.77 6.72 #2 Corn (ton) 175.00 148.00 161.00 172.00 170.00 #2 Barley 158.00 125.00 140.00 150.00 150.00 Wheat..West coast white wheat mark...
8 Mar 2018
USDA MARKET NEWS--AFTERNOON CATTLE REPORT 03/08/18 VOLUME USDA TOTAL RANGE DTN PRACTICAL RANGE WT AVG KANSAS CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 11,963 WEEK T0 DATE: 16,314 STEERS 6,403 125.50-128.00 126.00-127.00 126.27 HEIFERS 2,972 126.00-127.00 126.00-127.00 126.29 NEBRASKA CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 36,890 WEEK TO DATE: 45,927 STEERS 5,095 204.00...