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12 Aug 2016
By Dan Crummett Progressive Farmer Contributor Nowhere else on the farm is the old saying, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," more true than in the harvest motor pool. From combines and trucks to tractors and grain carts, a successful and efficient harvest season is only as likely as the weakest link in the machinery shed. Although ...
12 Aug 2016
By Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor and Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Good weather and larger planting acreage are turning into record-breaking production for corn and soybeans as USDA pegs the corn crop at 15.15 billion bushels and soybeans at just over 4 billion bushels. USDA's monthly World Agricultural Supply and De...
12 Aug 2016
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The DTN average DDG weekly spot price was unchanged in the past week at $121 per ton. Of the 37 locations DTN collects spot prices from, three locations showed increases from last week's prices, 12 locations reported decreases between $5 and $7 per ton, and the balance of locations were unchanged. A few merch...
11 Aug 2016
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor ST. LOUIS (DTN) -- Sure, Illinois farmer Alan Madison has economized to make ends meet during this farm recession. He told an audience of ag journalists recently that he has slowed his combine trades to every four years instead of three; split applied nitrogen to shave fertilizer rates; and follows a see...
11 Aug 2016
By Dan DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist The dog days of August are upon us and that typically brings on tip-back worries, especially if conditions have turned hot and dry. The missing kernels can be aborted kernels -- ones that were fertilized but stopped developing -- or can be kernel initials that weren't fertilized due to problems with the po...