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13 Nov 2015
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ST. LOUIS (DTN) -- The final soybeans of 2015 are hitting the bins, but your fields may be far from empty. For the second year in a row, soybean diseases thrived in Midwestern fields and they've left their mark -- or rather, their fungus -- behind to keep the party going in 2016. White mold was especially prom...
13 Nov 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter Except for some minor adjustments in a few locations, prices of dried distillers grains remained steady in the past week, with merchandisers noting that trade was quiet. The DTN weekly spot price average remained unchanged at $123 per ton after a four-week-long upward trend. This is still the highest level the a...
12 Nov 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor KANSAS CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Agriculture seems to be the one industry where different sectors are coalescing around support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Even as other business lobbies are taking a more wait-and-see attitude, leaders from several major agricultural groups gathered Wednesday in Kansas City to ...
12 Nov 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Though the trial for the Des Moines Water Works' nutrient runoff lawsuit against government entities in Iowa's Raccoon River and Boone River watersheds is set for later next year, a clean water interest group in the state is acknowledging there's more to be done to reduce runoff and improve water qual...
12 Nov 2015
By Dan DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist Seeding fall covers requires innovation, planning and time. Mostly we seem to run out of the later when it comes to seeding covers. The snow is starting to fly here, so it may seem a funny time to write about cover crops. However, I've found it's never too early to plan what you'll do next year with this p...