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19 Sep 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- "The only time of year farmers want a drought is during harvest" is a well-known saying that holds true every autumn. Harvest weather this fall looks to be warmer and perhaps wetter in some Corn Belt locations, according to meteorologists on a recent North Central U.S. Monthly Climate and Drought Summa...
19 Sep 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Are you sure the data your yield monitor is recording are accurate? Ron LeMay, CEO of the farm data analytics company FarmLink, learned a hard lesson on this seven years ago. "We started collecting yield data with state-of-the-art technology at the time," he recalled. "But as we examined...
19 Sep 2016
By Greg D. HorstmeierDTN Editor-in-Chief OMAHA (DTN) -- The mood of farmers across the country continues to slump, according to the most recent DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agriculture Confidence Index. Farmers surveyed in August produced the lowest score, a pessimistic 72, in the seven-year history of the index. One year ago, the ACI was a more neut...
16 Sep 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to decline for the fifth consecutive week, according to national average prices tracked by DTN for the first week of September. Once again, all eight major fertilizers were lower compared a month earlier with all but one marking considerable price drops. One thing tha...
16 Sep 2016
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist The now-famous Clairol commercial used to ask: "Does she or doesn't she?" Today, agriculture's version of that theme could be applied to fall nitrogen applications: "Should you or shouldn't you?" It's never been more important to better manage nitrogen (N). With commodity prices down, farmers should be...