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25 Oct 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Retail prices of all eight major fertilizers continued to climb in the third week of October, with anhydrous leading the way while farmers continued to hit the fields. Anhydrous climbed 6% on average to $809 per ton, the only significant jump this week. DTN surveys retail fertilizer sellers weekly to establish price estimates...
24 Oct 2023
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- As the old saying goes, "You have to be in it to win it." In 2022, Brad Disrud simply wasn't in it. "I should have entered the contest last year," the farmer from Rolla, North Dakota, reluctantly admitted. "I don't know if I would have won, but we had some really good wheat that I think would've been in the running. So,...
24 Oct 2023
By Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor, and Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent DES MOINES (DTN) – Groups tied to exporting and promoting U.S. agricultural goods lauded USDA tapping into the Commodity Credit Corp. to fund $2.3 billion in trade promotion and foreign food aid. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced USDA will use $1.3 ...
23 Oct 2023
This article was originally published at 3:03 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 23. It was last updated with additional information at 3:43 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 23. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Mostly favorable weather conditions across much of the country last week allowed the corn and soybean harvests to maintain their lead over the five-year averages, USDA NASS...
22 Oct 2023
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Farmers have a lingo all their own. This week, North Dakota farmers Chandra and Mike Langseth hope to finish cutting soybeans, so they can start combining corn. In Missouri, Zachary (Zach) Grossman also hopes to finish up his bean harvest so he can go back to shelling corn. Or will he pick it? The regional colloquialisms make...