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3 Nov 2023
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- A 211.98-bushel-per-acre (bpa) yield might cause some wheat growers to check their yield monitor accuracy. But for Chris Gross, a Reardan, Washington, farmer, the tally fell a few kernels short of what he hoped might be possible this growing season. Still, the result was enough to win Gross top honors in the irrigated winter ...
2 Nov 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday said there is no reason farming can't be more profitable and pointed to waves of spending initiatives by Congress and his administration in the past three years. Biden visited the Kluver farm near Northfield, Minnesota, as the White House looks to increase support in rural America and counter a primar...
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...