Entries for April 2018
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27 Apr 2018
USDA MARKET NEWS--AFTERNOON CATTLE REPORT 04/27/18 VOLUME USDA TOTAL RANGE DTN PRACTICAL RANGE WT AVG KANSAS CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 6,217 WEEK T0 DATE: 13,195 STEERS 2,853 119.00-124.00 119.00-124.00 123.79 HEIFERS 1,549 122.00-124.00 122.00-124.00 123.89 NEBRASKA CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 6,824 WEEK TO DATE: 9,884 STEERS 1,017 186.00-19...
27 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Ah, planting season -- that magical time of year when spray rigs and tractors pulling planters or tillage equipment must share the road with over-caffeinated commuters, soccer moms and truck drivers. The season is ripe for traffic accidents, so we visited with two farmers, Stephen Elli...
27 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The roll-out of new dicamba herbicides last year came with a complex new vocabulary. Terms like "volatility" and "inversion" swirled around and confused many. Yet at least one term -- spray particle drift -- was familiar to farmers, easy to understand and, most important, mostly under an...
27 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A group of Arkansas farmers had little more than a week of access to dicamba before the state Supreme Court intervened on Wednesday, April 25. Nearly 200 farmers had gained temporary access to new dicamba herbicides after three judges in Clay, Mississippi and Phillips counties issued tem...
27 Apr 2018
USDA Daily Market Rates 04/27 06:48 HDR1010500000080427180700DAILY MARKET RATES(GRAIN/MISC COMMODITIES) Form Approved OMB No. 0560-XXXX Effective: April 27, 2018 ***NOTE CHANGES TO DIFFERENTIAL INFORMATION EFFECTIVE 04/27/18**** The following Market Rates are established to aid in the development of the Posted County Prices (PCPs) which are used by...