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25 Mar 2022
Rail service has been failing for well over a month. Shippers who are unable to get empty cars to load out commodities or receive shipments of goods or are not receiving timely rail service are at a breaking point. On Thursday, March 24, the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) urged the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to address the "sign...
24 Mar 2022
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Higher prices for corn, soybeans and wheat should outpace the increase in input costs for the 2022 growing season. Robert Fox, director of the Knowledge Exchange Division at CoBank, said that even at current high prices, fertilizer accounts for about 10% to 20% of an average farm's input costs, depending on the crop. "If ...
24 Mar 2022
LAVISTA, Neb. (DTN) -- With the start of the summer driving season fast approaching and year-round E15 sales no longer an option, EPA's Rod Snyder said on Thursday the agency continues to work to restore those sales. Snyder, who is the ag adviser to EPA Administrator Michael Regan and a keynote speaker at the Nebraska Ethanol Board's Emerging Issue...
24 Mar 2022
The crop season continues in Argentina as much of the late-planted corn and soybeans are in reproductive or filling stages of growth. But the attention is starting to turn northward in Brazil. The second-crop (safrinha) corn in the country is essentially all in the ground and developing quickly. The central states of Mato Grosso, Goias, and Minas G...
23 Mar 2022
NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- Banding dry fertilizer prior to planting corn, or possibly in-season, can help farmers get the most out of costly nutrients and boost yields. Fred Below, a professor of crop physiology at the University of Illinois, said the current corn yield gap is 439 bushels per acre (bpa). That's the difference between David Hula's world-r...