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23 Sep 2022
BLACKBURN, Mo. (DTN) -- Robert Bonnie, USDA's undersecretary for farm production and conservation, jumped in a tractor and helped plant cereal rye as a cover crop on a Missouri farm on Wednesday. He -- along with other USDA staff, representatives from commodity organizations for corn, soybean and pork producers, and a handful of area farmers --- de...
22 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Leon Vanden Berge operates a small agronomy consulting business, 4 Ag Tech, in south-central Nebraska where he ideally wants to take a laptop out into a field and help farmers with their precision tools for work such as fertilizer applications. It can require a lot of data, often in the cloud, that requires good internet service to e...
21 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Fertilizer prices are varied, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the second week of September 2022. Five of the eight major fertilizers are lower in price compared to a month ago while the remaining three are higher. No fertilizers were appreciably lower or higher. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5...
20 Sep 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Winter wheat and cover crop seed supplies are tight in some regions due to weather-related production issues, seed industry representatives report. Farmers can also expect higher prices for cover crops and winter wheat seed compared to last year, and in some cases, significantly more. Cover crop and winter wheat planting have ...
16 Sep 2022
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Pork producers and other farmers nationally would be faced with meeting multiple conflicting state welfare standards if the U.S. Supreme Court lets California's Proposition 12 stand, National Pork Producers Council leaders said Thursday. The Supreme Court will hear arguments from NPPC and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFB...