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5 May 2022
Grain market news during the first week of May featured the slow pace of corn planting: 14% nationwide as of Sunday, May 1, 28 percentage points behind the 42% progress a year ago and 19 percentage points behind the five-year average of 33%. It's also the slowest planting pace since 2013. In that year, corn planting was only 5% planted by April 28 ...
5 May 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Oklahoma Hard Red Winter (HRW) wheat production this year will likely be about half of the 2021 harvest, as widespread drought and recent high winds took a toll on plants. The Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association assessed the state's HRW wheat crop in late April and reported the findings Tuesday, May 3, during its annual meetin...
4 May 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Oklahoma Hard Red Winter (HRW) wheat production this year will likely be about half of the 2021 harvest, as widespread drought and recent high winds took a toll on plants. The Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association assessed the state's HRW wheat crop in late April and reported the findings Tuesday, May 3, during its annual meetin...
4 May 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of April 2022, prices are somewhat mixed to end the month of April. Six fertilizers' prices were higher, but none were up significantly. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more. DAP had an average price of $1,049 per ton, MAP $1,082/ton (all-tim...
3 May 2022
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Up Top Acres co-founder Kristof Grina figures his company's foray into urban agriculture will be part of a solution to many pressing problems in Washington, D.C., and other large cities on the East Coast. Growing food atop tall city building rooftops can help city dwellers reduce runoff into the Chesapeake Bay, create much-neede...