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22 Dec 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the second week of December 2016 continue to show fertilizer prices in no strong pattern. While prices have moved both higher and lower for some nutrients compared to a month ago, the movement is slight. Half of the eight major fertilizers nudged higher in...
21 Dec 2016
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (DTN) -- It's no secret that Randy Dowdy can rock a yield contest. However, this year the Valdosta, Georgia, grower and Dowdy Farms produced two yields in excess of 500 bushels per acre in the 2016 National Corn Yield Contest. Topping the mark twice in the same year is a first for the ...
21 Dec 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the second week of December 2016 continue to show fertilizer prices in no strong pattern. While prices have moved both higher and lower for some nutrients compared to a month ago, the movement is slight. Half of the eight major fertilizers nudged higher in th...
21 Dec 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Lack of a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol industry has led to a Renewable Fuel Standard conundrum: Where do companies complying with the law find gallons or the renewable identification numbers, or RIN? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued waivers for cellulosic ethanol in the past dec...
20 Dec 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- All is not as it appears as an Arctic blast pushes winter wheat in the Great Plains deeper into dormancy. The prolonged, warm fall allowed wheat plants to put on some impressive aboveground growth in October and November, but drought conditions have taken their toll underground. The lat...