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31 Mar 2016
By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- USDA expects corn acres to swell to 93.6 million acres, well above pre-report expectations. Soybean acres are expected to drop slightly from last year to 82.24 million acres, in line with pre-report expectations. Quarterly corn stocks for March 2016 were pegged at 7.8 billion bushels, up 1%...
31 Mar 2016
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser The novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was known for his psychological insights into the human condition in the context of 19th century Russian society, expressed in books such as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov." One of his most revealing observations is "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingr...
30 Mar 2016
By Dan DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist An application of starter fertilizer may give soybeans a head start in the spring when planting earlier than normal. As with corn, when soils are cool in the spring, dry or too moist, soybean seedlings have few roots to intercept nutrients and soil organic matter isn't yet mineralizing nutrients. A band of...
30 Mar 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The average retail price of some nitrogen fertilizers accelerated during the fourth week of March 2016, while the price of other fertilizers held steady, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. As was the case last week, five of the eight major fertilizers edged higher compared to a month earlier. Both...
30 Mar 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Abengoa Bioenergy's ethanol plants in the United States will have $1.5 million to cover payroll and other expenses for the next week, the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri in St. Louis, ruled on Tuesday. Abengoa operates ethanol plants in Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Illino...