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11 Mar 2022
The skies above the Northern Plains only offered John Hofer 4 inches of rain in 2021. By June, two years into a scorching drought, the Milnor, North Dakota, farmer had nearly given up on his dryland spring wheat field. But the crop soon proved its mettle. Using small but well-timed spurts of rainfall, the field of West Bred WB9590 eked out 122.23 b...
10 Mar 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A Warsaw, Indiana-based crop insurance company has reached a settlement with the U.S. attorney's office in western Michigan, agreeing to pay $500,000 to resolve allegations the company violated federal law by submitting fraudulent crop insurance claims for a Michigan farmer now facing charges. Silveus Insurance Group Inc. and...
10 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and 19 other members of the Agricultural Transportation Working Group sent President Joe Biden a letter on March 7 requesting the administration work with the Canadian government to ease supply chain strains, according to a TFI press release. Specifically,...
10 Mar 2022
NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- At a time of soaring prices and newfound attention on wheat production, this should be a heady spring for U.S. wheat farmers. But where Shawn Kimbrell farms in the High Plains of Texas, the outlook is dusty and discouraging. His winter wheat fields got just enough moisture to germinate and emerge in the fall, but since then, hi...
10 Mar 2022
The March 2022 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report had few major surprises in it. However, with wheat already trading near limit lower prior to the report, that long liquidation continued following the mildly bearish wheat portion of the report, sending wheat to limit down. The corn and soybean parts of the report were con...