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17 Aug 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- After months of only slight declines, average retail fertilizer prices finally appeared to be dropping substantially the second week of August 2016, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. While all fertilizer prices were lower, the average prices of several fertilizers were significantly lo...
16 Aug 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Sen. Charles Grassley told agriculture reporters Tuesday he wants to be sure two separate federal agencies are working together to monitor what the major mergers and acquisitions in the seed and chemical industries will mean to U.S. farmers at a time when the farm economy is on the ropes. Grassley, ...
16 Aug 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst In my July 26 and Aug. 9 columns, I showed how variations of Richard Donchian's four-week trading rule produced profitable hypothetical trading results for corn and soybeans since 1995. As good as the results looked, I also tried to emphasize that following a simple system like this is not necessarily easy and is not for ...
16 Aug 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Reports of pyrethroid failures against soybean aphids in Minnesota are surfacing once again. Last year, entomologists there confirmed a number of pyrethroid-resistant populations, not a surprising development given the pest's creepy cloning abilities. Aphids can duplicate themselves man...
15 Aug 2016
By Mary KennedyDTN Analyst Agriculture product shipping groups are urging the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association to begin contract negotiations to avoid another labor dispute like the one in late 2014 and early 2015 that disrupted operations at West Coast ports. That dispute affected the container industry...