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1 Sep 2016
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist Scientists will tell you any applied nitrogen regardless of form and time applied is vulnerable to loss. Soil can't naturally hold any in reserve unless it's in the organic form. Or can it? I recently spoke to a farmer during an event in Illinois about how he was adjusting his nitrogen (N) program on c...
1 Sep 2016
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor NASHVILLE (DTN) -- Weathering the turbulence in commodity markets is a real threat to the nation's start-up farms. Often they possess the lowest equity and are still building credit histories. That means three years of tumbling farm incomes and a 38% drop in corn revenue since 2012 are taking a toll. So ...
1 Sep 2016
By Jim PatricoProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) are no longer toys. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finally let them out of the box. Now, they are officially tools. After several years of delay, the FAA issued regulations that give farmers a clear path to commercial use of autonomous flying vehicles. The...
31 Aug 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Seed prices, and the companies that set them, have appeared stubbornly indifferent to the decline in commodity crop values over the past few growing seasons. This past indifference -- and farmers' growing frustration over it -- may have changed, with some seed companies now re-examining...
31 Aug 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Winter dumps piles of snow nearly every year along a tree belt near an 0.8-acre tract of land on Arlen Foster's farm in Miner County, South Dakota, in the southeastern part of the state. Spring melt drains onto his field, often making it impossible to farm. Such is life in the Prairie Pothole region...