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2 Sep 2015
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Statistics can be a strange, fickle, and misleading guide. Back in April, I did a large study of individual counties' corn yields to find which ones tended to be most closely related to overall U.S. corn yields. It turned out Lyon County in northwest Iowa, with its corn yields from 1955 to 2014 showing a +0.963...
1 Sep 2015
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) -- Farmer Kip Tom and his family make it a point to shower their 90 landlords with quarterly newsletters, a timely web page, photos, humorous posts on Facebook and Twitter, and an annual appreciation dinner with a fish fry, door prizes and farm equipment displays. This month they h...
1 Sep 2015
By Jim PatricoProgressive Farmer Senior Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- It's become traditional at the Farm Progress Show for Jim Walker, Case IH's vice president for North American ag equipment sales, to provide the ag media with a quick look at the state of the farm equipment industry. Monday's assessment was realistic and --cautiously -- optimisti...
1 Sep 2015
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist I really like getting reader questions because it lets me know what is on grower's minds. Recently, a Pennsylvania grower asked me to make some specific comments about starter fertilizer and placement and foliar nutritional products for soybeans and cautions about their use. The question: "Is there any...
31 Aug 2015
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Defining a fair rent is likely to get a little tricky this fall. Landowners read the headlines, "Cash rents have to come down" for farmers to survive. "But my landowning clients ask what about equipment costs, family living expenses and crop inputs?" said Dale Aupperle with Hea...