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17 Jun 2016
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- A recent surge in Brazilian soybean prices will prompt farmers to substantially increase planted area in the upcoming 2016-17 season, consultants forecast. Area will grow by 1.2 million acres to 2.5 million acres or more, confounding initial expectations that area would ...
16 Jun 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Key leaders in agriculture and food industries pleaded Thursday for leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee to strike a deal on how to inform consumers that foods may contain ingredients from crops derived from genetically modified organisms. A spokesperson on the Senate Agriculture Committee...
16 Jun 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In a case highlighting conflicts of interests in a state checkoff program, Missouri soybean farmers won a major lawsuit Wednesday against a seed genetics company co-owned and managed by a former Missouri state soybean checkoff executive. The Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council and Mid-America R...
16 Jun 2016
By Dan DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist Whenever commodity prices drop, or even when they remain up, growers question whether a fungicide application will pay for itself, either by protecting yield, bumping it, or a combination. Fungicides are typically applied to defend against a perceived threat. Some of those threats are already showing up: P...
15 Jun 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to move very little the first week of June 2016, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. Fertilizer prices have been steady for nine consecutive weeks now. All eight fertilizers were lower compared to last month, but has been the case in recent weeks, none...