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22 Dec 2015
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Imitation has been the sincerest form of frustration for plant pathologist Tom Allen and other researchers investigating a new disease that's being called soybean taproot decline. The Mississippi State University scientist had observed some odd conditions in soybean f...
22 Dec 2015
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- National retail fertilizer prices continued to drift lower the third week of December 2015, according to dealers tracked by DTN. That's a move that could offer modest breaks for corn budgets in 2016. All eight of the major fertilizers edged lower compared to a month earlier, but none were down signific...
21 Dec 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite large spikes in nitrates in water during times of heavy rains following drought, overall nitrate levels have been falling in Iowa's Raccoon River watershed between 1999 and 2014, according to a study recently completed by the Iowa Soybean Association. Des Moines Water Works has sued 10 draina...
21 Dec 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The members of two Iowa farmers cooperatives approved a merger Friday that will create a company -- Landus Cooperative -- that will be among the largest cooperatives in the country. The members of Ames, Iowa-based Farmers Cooperative Company and West Central Cooperative based in Ralston, Iowa, approve...
21 Dec 2015
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- Farmers in Mato Grosso have never seen a year like it. Renowned for its metronomic summer rains, precipitation in Brazil's No. 1 soybean state has been spotty and irregular since the season began in September. And with early planted beans nearing maturity, it is increasin...