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14 Dec 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to split in direction the first week of December 2016, with some higher from a month earlier and some lower, according to retailers tracked by DTN. However, for the first time, a majority of fertilizers inched higher rather than lower. Five of the eight major fertiliz...
14 Dec 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- It has been an interesting fall for Tim Malterer. Heavy rains fell in late September until he started to harvest on his farm at Janesville in south-central Minnesota. While he was able to get all but 3 acres harvested -- he will wait for a hard freeze to get these last few acres -- the fall fertilizer...
13 Dec 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Shareholders for Monsanto Co. officially voted Tuesday at a special meeting to approve the merger with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bayer Aktiengesellschaft. In a news release, Monsanto stated that its shareowners will receive $128 per share in cash at the closing of the merger. Approximately 75...
13 Dec 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst As we crank out the final few weeks of 2016, you might think that U.S. soybean producers would be smiling this year after achieving a record national yield of 52.5 bushels an acre and watching spot futures prices increase 19% from the end of 2015. Compared to a 2% drop in spot corn and 15% drop in Chicago wheat, soybean ...
13 Dec 2016
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor As Matt Palmer looks around Arizona's Gila Valley, he sees it through the eyes of family and farming. Others see the mountain-ringed river basin as a picturesque area ripe for development. Two very different perceptions, they create competition for acres and make it more challenging by the year ...