Headline News
RECENT NEWS
5 Jan 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The collapse in fertilizer prices since 2014 should put an extra jingle in farm budgets next season. According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of December, all prices closed 2016 with double-digit reductions year-over-year. This marks the second year in a row of retail pr...
4 Jan 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Anyone who chews gum or eats individually wrapped candy has likely swallowed a piece of wrapper at one time or another. Though unpleasant, it's unlikely the small piece of wrapper caused any serious health problems. But can the same be said for cattle that swallow pieces of hay bale wrapper? That's a ...
4 Jan 2017
By Greg D. HorstmeierDTN Editor-in-Chief OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers have put a tremendous amount of hope into the new presidential administration, one that built its candidacy on throwing out the political party which had "Hope" as a central theme. That's really the only way to interpret the results of the latest DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agricultura...
4 Jan 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Along with a new year comes the anticipation of what lies ahead, and for December corn prices, the early outlook is bearish. Coming off a record 15.23 billion bushel harvest, USDA is estimating 2.4 billion bushels of ending U.S. corn stocks for 2016-17 or 16% of annual use. In addition to surplus corn in the U.S., compe...
3 Jan 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- This bi-monthly column condenses the latest news in the field of crop technology, research and products. THOSE OTHER GMOs The rapid rise in the use of genetically modified (GM) corn, cotton and soybeans has been well documented in the U.S., in part thanks to agencies like USDA's Economic...