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20 Jul 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the second week of July 2016 show prices are lower but not by significant amounts. However, DTN's last five weekly surveys have all reported price reductions. In the latest retail survey, all eight of the major fertilizers dropped slightly in price compared...
20 Jul 2016
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst MUGWUMP (noun | mug·wump | \'m?g-w?mp\) : a person who is independent (as in politics) or who remains undecided or neutral Presidential elections are assumed to have some effect on the markets, or on the stock markets anyway, and during these two summer weeks of flag-waving convention furor, I thought I should...
19 Jul 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declined to discuss presidential politics Saturday but sought to tout to the nation's governors the importance of both expanded trade and local foods to boosting farm incomes and rural economic development. Vilsack attended the National Governors' Associatio...
19 Jul 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst After being wrapped up in the day-to-day movement of grain prices, I often find it helpful to take time out and look around at how other markets are doing. Getting a larger perspective helps one see the ebbs and flows of the world's wealth and where grain markets fall in the scheme of things. Among financial assets, hold...
19 Jul 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Don Villwock, former president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, calls his state's governor and now vice presidential candidate Mike Pence "our dream candidate for agriculture." Villwock said in a phone interview Monday that he's been getting a lot of calls over the past few days from people asking abo...