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13 Aug 2023
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The idiom "when it rains it pours" may have originated with a Morton salt commercial, but Zachary Grossman has now experienced it firsthand. Rainfall totals on his northwest Missouri farm amounted from 10 to nearly 12 inches during the past two weeks. "I don't even know if I've added it all up right as there's been so much. T...
13 Aug 2023
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of Aug. 13. Watch for coverage of these and other topics through the week on our subscription platforms as well as on DTNPF.com. 1. Ag Summit Series: Tuesday is our latest DTN Ag Summit Series virtual event. We'll touch on details behind the recent DTN D...
11 Aug 2023
By Katie Dehlinger, DTN Farm Business Editor, and Jason Jenkins, DTN Crops Editor MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The fourth day of the DTN Digital Yield Tour shows the importance of rain in sharp contrast. Early summer rains in Kansas may have stymied the wheat harvest, but it's paying off in a potentially record corn crop. The story is tougher across ...
11 Aug 2023
By Katie Dehlinger, DTN Farm Business Editor, and Jason Jenkins, DTN Crops Editor MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- South Dakota caught the rebound rains. Most of Minnesota did not. "South Dakota and Minnesota went in two different directions with the weather," DTN Ag Meteorologist John Baranick said. "Both had issues with early planting due to lingering...
11 Aug 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers got their work done in the spring on more acres this year as the Farm Service Agency (FSA) reported prevented-planting acres this spring at 3.56 million acres -- nearly half the unplanted acreage from 2022. Teeth gnashing over prevented planting acres is almost a rite of passage unto itself every spring. Every late snow or he...