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12 Jul 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Acreage in the overall Conservation Reserve Program will increase by a net 1.7 million acres in 2022 after USDA saw a bumper enrollment in the CRP Grasslands signup. All told, USDA should come out of fiscal year 2022 with 23.8 million acres enrolled in overall CRP, the largest acreage in the program since fiscal year 2016. USDA annou...
11 Jul 2022
This article was originally posted at 3:05 p.m. CDT on Monday, July 11. It was last updated at 3:44 p.m. CDT on Monday, July 11. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. corn conditions held steady and soybean conditions fell just 1 percentage point last week thanks to timely rains across much of the Corn Belt, USDA NASS reported in its weekly Crop Progress on Monda...
11 Jul 2022
The seven states within the Colorado River Basin will need to conserve 2 million to 4 million acre feet of water in 2023 and maintain those cuts for the next few years to protect Lake Mead's and Lake Powell's reservoirs, U.S. Reclamation Commissioner Camille C. Touton testified at a Senate hearing last month. The Senate Committee on Energy and Natu...
11 Jul 2022
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- This is the perfect time of year to do a little digging to see if soybean cyst nematodes (SCN) are dining in soybean fields at your expense. It's easy. Grab a shovel or a trowel. Dig up the entire plant, taking care to include the roots. Look at the roots closely for little white granules -- much like grains of salt or sugar....
8 Jul 2022
After a month of more falling crop prices, USDA's July World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report has a chance to interrupt the current economic worry-fest and put market attention back on the prospects for this year's grain supplies. USDA's WASDE and Crop Production reports are due out at 11 a.m. CDT on Tuesday, July 12. CORN De...