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4 Jan 2016
By Ken JohnsonDTN Fertilizer Columnist AMMONIA World ammonia market prices dropped steadily through December. Export ammonia prices from Yuzhnyy, former Soviet Union (FSU), fell from $340-$550 per metric ton early to $270-$310 late. (All prices in this column are wholesale.) Weakening phosphate prices and seasonally weaker demand for ammonia at the...
4 Jan 2016
By Bryce AndersonDTN Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- The strongest Pacific Ocean El Nino since 1997 continues to be the primary weather driver as we think about the 2016 growing season. With that overall influence, prospects heading into the first quarter of 2016 look promising for at least trendline yields. If such a production scenario verifies, ...
31 Dec 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- During the summer of 2014, a massive algae bloom in Lake Erie forced more than 400,000 residents of Toledo, Ohio, to temporarily avoid using city water after dangerous levels of toxins showed up in tests at one treatment plant. The state of Ohio hopes to prevent that from happening again, announcing W...
31 Dec 2015
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Analyst WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The Center for Biological Diversity on Wednesday criticized the Environmental Protection Agency for missing deadlines to complete risk assessments in 2015 for the pesticides atrazine, glyphosate and imidacloprid. "These risk assessments aren't just bureaucratic boxes to be checked," said Lo...
31 Dec 2015
By Dan Crummett Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Steve Berger and his dad, Dennis, have been no-till farming since the 1970s in southeast Iowa near Wellman. For the past 15 years, they've been planting cereal rye cover crops behind every inch of their 2,000-acre, 50/50 corn-and-soybean farm. Still, contrary to much conventional coffee-shop wi...