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22 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- After roughly two years of political wrangling, the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would require major meatpackers to buy a certain percentage of their cattle through negotiated cash trade sales. In a business meeting, senators spotlighted their support or opposition to the cattle markets bill, as...
22 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to move just slightly lower the second full week of June 2022, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. This is the third week in a row that most prices were less expensive. Seven of the eight major fertilizers prices were lower compared to last month, but none were down a considerable amount. DTN de...
22 Jun 2022
WACO, Neb. (DTN) -- Under blue skies and rising heat and humidity June 16, Jeff Obermier, along with his son Brayden and their neighbors and friends, worked to get grain out of big bins now mostly topless and crumpled like tin cans. Next to trees with some of their tops sheared off and a shredded, twisted corn crop in the field, a line of semis wai...
20 Jun 2022
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at John Deere retiring its 3710 moldboard plow, John Deere Chairman and CEO John May giving a keynote speech at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show, and AGCO Corporation celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Gleaner brand. Read on for more details. ** DEERE RETIRES A MOLDBOARD PLOW The compa...
20 Jun 2022
BELMOND, Iowa (DTN) -- Planting in high-residue, no-till fields can be a challenge for Josh Nelson. The trash whippers and disc openers on his no-till planter don't always move and cut all the crop residue, including decaying cover crops. Occasionally, some residue gets pinched and pushed into the seed furrow, which can cause germination issues and...