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7 Mar 2017
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist When it comes to increasing soil health, we most often focus on increasing organic matter. Practices that build organic matter include reducing tillage, planting more high-residue crops such as corn and wheat, rotating to sod grass crops that produce a lot of root biomass with stable carbon, planting a...
7 Mar 2017
By Karl Stenerson DTN Fertilizer Columnist Here is a breakdown of international and domestic wholesale prices and trends by the various fertilizers: AMMONIA International: International ammonia prices remained firm during February as supply out of the Black Sea was still severely restricted for most of the month. The pumping of ammonia from Russia...
7 Mar 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The Governors' Biofuels Coalition on Monday asked President Donald Trump to support a number of changes to federal law to support biofuels production. In a letter signed by Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, chairman of the coalition; Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Trump's nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador ...
6 Mar 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst At times like these when corn and wheat supplies are abundant, and there seems to be no end to the rising surpluses, I often think of a statistic I once noticed in the crude oil market. Many may remember that spot crude oil prices traded above $140 a barrel in the summer of 2008 and dropped below $30 a barrel in early 201...
6 Mar 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst USDA is estimating an increase in soybean acres this spring because the economics of doing so makes sense. But there are many who don't think that acres will increase by as much as the most recent predictions. I have talked to farmers around the Midwest about what their intentions are, and also to local elevators ab...