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28 Apr 2016
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist Sidedressing nitrogen became a lost art for a few years in our history. Many farmers abandoned the practice as farms grew larger and application windows grew tighter. This isn't the first practice to make a comeback, but it may be one of the most important. The current input cost crunch, the necessity t...
27 Apr 2016
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Cory Ritter finished planting corn this week with one eye on the row and the other on the rain clouds approaching in the distance. The corn portion of the planting season lasted only 10 days start to finish for the Blue Mound, Illinois, farmer -- that includes the thr...
27 Apr 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Fertilizer prices continued to hold fairly steady for the second week in a row, according to retailers contacted by DTN during the third week of April. As was the case last week, four fertilizers were higher priced while the other four fertilizers were lower priced compared to last month. None of the ...
27 Apr 2016
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Let's say you've been asked to teach 500 farmers, in groups of 50, how to be better grain marketers and get higher prices for their corn. What would your presentations include? Futures and options strategies? The importance of pre-harvest hedging during the new-crop market's spring highs? Now let's say your au...
26 Apr 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- "I would say most of the corn is going to be put in the ground this week." That's the assessment of DTN View From the Cab farmer Chase Brown as he summed up intentions of corn farmers around his place near Decatur, Illinois. Chase told DTN he has about half his seed corn in the grou...