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17 Dec 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The global potash (K) outlook features some major geopolitical issues. How quickly these matters can be solved, and if supply levels increase, will dictate if high fertilizer prices decline any in 2022. Similar to the phosphorus outlook depending heavily on what happens in China, the K prospect in 2022 is very reliant on what happens...
16 Dec 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA is asking the Supreme Court to reject a petition by Idaho property owners Michael and Chantell Sackett to determine the standard for which the agency can make waters of the U.S. determinations. In a brief filed at the end of November, EPA told the Supreme Court that lower courts have affirmed the validity of the use of th...
15 Dec 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Corn yields surpassing 600 bushels per acre (bpa) used to be unthinkable. For David Hula, they're becoming routine. With a no-till, irrigated field of Pioneer's P1222YHR hitting 602.17 bushels per acre, Hula, of Charles City, Virginia, has once again topped the National Corn Yield Contest -- and cemented his status of one of...
15 Dec 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for most fertilizers continued to climb the first full week of December 2021, with nitrogen fertilizers again leading the way, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Five of the eight major fertilizers recorded a sizable move higher from last month. DTN designates a substantial move as anything 5% or more. Leadin...
15 Dec 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Randy Uhrmacher, a row-crop farmer near Hastings, Nebraska, was busy Tuesday getting his farm and recreation property prepared for another battle with Mother Nature. Another round of severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, which could also spawn tornadoes, are forecast to batter much of the Midwest on Wednesday. Wind gusts a...