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5 May 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- More than 70 vehicles crashed along a six-mile stretch of Interstate 55 in Illinois on Monday, May 1, as wind gusts in excess of 35 mph whipped up dust from nearby fields, dropping visibility to zero. Seven people died and 37 more were transported to hospitals. The scale of the tragedy garnered national news attention, an...
5 May 2023
COLORADO, Lincoln County. Cropland, grass and expired CRP ground totaling 7,950 acres sold at absolute auction for $3.2 million. The property sold in five tracts, with average per-acre prices ranging from $375 to $400. Average across the whole property was $403. The property included 27,000 bushels of storage and held bases in wheat and grain sorgh...
3 May 2023
Windy days are not unusual in the U.S. Midwest. Even so, the strong winds which raked blinding dust along a portion of Interstate 55 in central Illinois Monday, May 1, had some features both local and continental that created a wind tunnel. A National Weather Service summary of the dust storm notes: "The dust originated from freshly tilled and plan...
3 May 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices continued to be down from the previous month in the fourth week of April 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to last month. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. After a week off, anhydrous returned to...
2 May 2023
MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- Visiting with agricultural producers and touring research sites in Kansas on April 28, Sen. John Boozman, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, agreed that it's going to be complicated for Congress to pass a $1.5 trillion farm bill when Republican colleagues in the House just passed a debt bill meant to cut sp...