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23 Feb 2016
By Dan DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist Getting cover crops planted in a timely manner is a challenge for farmers in a corn/soybean rotation. One way to get a jump on fall is to interseed cover crops into standing corn after the V4 leaf stage. Corn is about 30 inches tall at this stage and should be competitive enough to compete for nutrients ...
23 Feb 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As has been the case over the last couple of months, some retail fertilizer prices are showing noticeable declines the third week of February 2016, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN. All eight major fertilizers were lower compared to a month earlier. Anhydrous slid 7% compared to la...
22 Feb 2016
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- With no more than sparse showers registered across Brazil's principal soy-producing regions, harvest efforts moved forward smartly last week, according to AgRural, a local farm consultancy. Fieldwork progressed seven percentage points to 23% as of Friday (Feb. 19), surpas...
22 Feb 2016
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Gil Myers doesn't like to use the term "worms" when he talks about those common internal parasites that affect cattle. He said the word doesn't convey the true economic importance of the parasites. "I refer to them as 'nematode parasites' of cattle," he said. "This makes it clear that we are talk...
19 Feb 2016
By Andy BieblDTN Tax Columnist QUESTION: I am an individual who is a 25% partner in a four-member limited liability company (LLC) that is taxed as a partnership. This is my only income, and it is all from farming conducted by the LLC. I have my own health insurance and pay the premiums with my own after-tax dollars. I thought I could deduct the pr...