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8 Jun 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The Drought Monitor showed expanding moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions across the Midwest. The data reflects weather up until June 6. "Large-scale additions and expansions of abnormal dryness and moderate drought occurred, especially along and east of the Mississippi River and in central Minnesota, where the ...
7 Jun 2023
USDA's June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) and Crop Production reports may not have much new to say for corn and soybeans, but there will be new wheat crop estimates from around the world, a new set of U.S. winter wheat estimates from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and a fresh look at Brazil's corn produ...
7 Jun 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- After one week of mostly higher levels, retail fertilizer prices are again mostly lower, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the last week of May 2023. Six of the eight major fertilizers are lower in price compared to last month. Only two fertilizers were substantially less expensive. DTN designates a significant...
5 Jun 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The development of future phosphate production at the Caldwell Canyon Mine in southeast Idaho was stopped in its tracks by a federal judge Friday, who vacated a number of permits and other approvals for Bayer AG to mine a nutrient it uses to produce glyphosate-based products including Roundup. On Friday, U.S. District Judge B...
5 Jun 2023
Heavy April snow in the Dakotas and northwest Minnesota left farmers wondering if and when they would get in their fields to start spring wheat and other small grains planting -- and if they would get their corn in ahead of the last insurance plant date. Talk of prevented planting began to swirl as the melting snow added to the rise in the Red Rive...