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1 Nov 2023
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- After years of placing nationally but falling short of earning top honors, Dallin Wilcox, a farmer from Rexburg, Idaho, took the title of "Bin Buster" in the irrigated spring wheat category of the 2023 National Wheat Yield Contest. His winning yield of 170.14 bushels per acre (bpa) topped all 13 entries in the category ...
1 Nov 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for all but one fertilizer were higher during the third week of October 2023 compared to last month, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were higher compared to last month, with one up significantly, which DTN designates as anything 5% or more. The only fertilize...
31 Oct 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The average daily close of the December corn futures contract was $4.88 during October, while the November soybean contract was $12.84 per bushel. The averages are an important piece of price discovery that underpins many crop insurance policies, which use the higher of either the harvest price or the spring projected pri...
30 Oct 2023
This article was originally published at 3:03 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 30. It was last updated with additional information at 3:26 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 30. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite heavy precipitation that fell over much of the Plains and Midwest last week, the U.S. corn and soybean harvests overall managed to stay ahead of the five-year avera...
30 Oct 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) announced Monday it will be producing plant-based specialty chemicals at the company's corn-processing plant in Marshall, Minnesota, as a result of a new partnership. The specialty chemicals company, Houston, Texas-based, Solugen, is set to begin construction on a 500,000-square-foot biomanufactur...