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1 Jul 2016
By Paul Queck DTN/Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Can cover crop roots clog field tile? Reports of tile clogging in Indiana rolled in this spring to Purdue University Extension agronomist and cover crop specialist Eileen Kladivko. "Rarely did I hear about it in the past," said Kladivko. "This year I heard about it a lot." It wasn't just In...
30 Jun 2016
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Last Friday rained livestock supply data like the soggiest days of Noah. The dark clouds of NASS opened up in early afternoon, dumping buckets of numbers linked to cattle on feed, family planning in the swine industry and stacked pallets of frozen cuts of meat in cold storage. As if this statistical gully wa...
30 Jun 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- As combines roll across the Great Plains, wheat growers are reporting some eye-popping yields, but the 2016 winter wheat harvest isn't quite perfect, agronomists, farmers and elevators told DTN. "Yields are better than anyone's ever seen," said Mike Schmidt, the grain and operations man...
30 Jun 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- USDA boosted corn acres above pre-report expectations to 94.15 million acres, up 7% from last year. Soybean acres also rose to 83.69 million acres, up 1% from last year. Quarterly grain stock estimates also blew past pre-report estimates, with USDA pegging corn stocks at 4.722 billion bushel...
30 Jun 2016
Editor's Note: Each year the Kansas City Board of Trade (now part of the CME Group), the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers provide updates of the Kansas wheat harvest. Today's update is the sixteenth report of the 2016 harvest. Jay Armstrong, an Atchison County farmer, reported tha...