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21 Sep 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued their steep decline the second week of September 2016, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. For the sixth week in a row, prices for fertilizers are considerably lower with all but one of the fertilizers having sizeable prices drops. Leading the way lowe...
21 Sep 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senators zoomed in on questions of market competition and fairness in the light of the three major mergers underway during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on consolidation in the U.S. seed and agrochemical industry. The hearing held on Tuesday focused on three proposed mergers -- Bayer...
20 Sep 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst If you want to talk about corn crop estimates this fall -- as many do -- we can go on and on about USDA's estimate of 15.09 billion bushels based on a yield of 174.4 bushels per acre. And we can also point out that this record crop is supposed to result in 2.38 billion bushels of ending stocks in 2016-17 which, if true,...
20 Sep 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- Since Aug. 17, DTN View From the Cab farmer Jim Hoover of Newport, Pennsylvania, has seen only a half inch of rain on his fields, but casual observers couldn't tell it from his soybean yields. "I am really amazed at how well the soybeans are doing in spite of the amount of rain they'v...
20 Sep 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should not be regulating neonicotinoid seed treatments in the same way it regulates other pesticide applications, the agency and a list of agriculture companies and interest groups told a federal court Friday. The agency filed a motion for summary judgement in ...