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31 Mar 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Farmers who faced droughty conditions in the 2021 growing season might have a valuable source of nitrogen at their disposal: their soils. Water and soil testing has shown that cornfields in parts of Minnesota, for example, have held tight to nitrates from last year's fertilizer applications, explained University of Minnesota...
31 Mar 2022
The second-season (safrinha) season was a little delayed in Brazil due to some wet weather at planting time in January and February, but most of the crop was planted within the preferred window. According to some private estimates, around 80% of the corn was planted by the third week in February, which is the end of the preferred planting window. W...
31 Mar 2022
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:03 a.m. CDT. It was updated at 11:50 a.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Thursday released its Prospective Plantings and March 1 Grain Stocks reports. USDA sees farmers planting 91 million acres (ma) of soybeans, a new record, while corn acreage is forecast to fall 4% from last year to 89.5 ma. DTN L...
30 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- The number of egg-layer flocks being hit by highly pathogenic avian influenza could scramble the availability of eggs leading into Easter, according to a new CoBank report. With new commercial cases of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) reported in Iowa, South Dakota and North Carolina, USDA reports at least 17.4 million t...
30 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Significantly higher retail fertilizer prices returned the fourth week of March 2022, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. The last time two fertilizers were double digits higher was the first week of December 2021. DAP and urea led the way higher. DAP was 16% more expensive compared to last month and has an average price of $1,014 ...