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29 Jun 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- For a second straight week retail fertilizer prices are showing some movement after months of extremely steady prices, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of June 2016. All eight of the major fertilizer were lower in price compared to the previous month. The only f...
28 Jun 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- "Accumulators are important because there are just absolutely no kids available to help." That's a little-known fact about hay shared with DTN late Sunday evening by View From the Cab farmer Chase Brown of Decatur, Illinois. The accumulator Chase referred to is a bale accumulator, u...
28 Jun 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- "Accumulators are important because there are just absolutely no kids available to help." That's a little-known fact about hay shared with DTN late Sunday evening by View From the Cab farmer Chase Brown of Decatur, Illinois. The accumulator Chase referred to is a bale accumulator, u...
28 Jun 2016
By Andy BieblDTN Tax Columnist I normally avoid state income tax issues in my column, given that our readership is national. But you might be amused at some of the political discussion in Minnesota over the state's latest income tax hike. And there's a lesson to be learned about a retired farmer's ability to escape a high taxing state. MINNESOTA'S ...
28 Jun 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst As we close in on the half-way mark of 2016 and are just two days shy of USDA's Acreage and Grain Stocks reports, the year has already been full of surprises for corn and soybeans -- some bullish, but the latest ones bearish. Last week was especially bearish for row crops as unexpected rain across the Midwest and the U.K....