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10 Dec 2021
AJ Blair is making the final passes on an oats field, a yellow Challenger pulling a Vermeer baler, round straw bales kicked out onto ground seeded with a red clover cover crop. The diverse, fourth-generation Blair Farm LLC, headquartered in central Iowa, near Dayton, is managed by AJ and Kellie Blair. The couple have been chosen to be part of our 1...
10 Dec 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Pointing to jobs and economic potential, a collection of Senate and House members wrote the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize $2.5 billion for inland waterways projects from the new infrastructure law toward Upper Mississippi River lock and dam projects. Specifically, 11 senators -- six Democrats and five Republicans -- from...
9 Dec 2021
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:01 a.m. CST. It was updated at 12:17 p.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Lower exports caused USDA to bump up ending wheat stocks higher than expected, increasing ending stocks to 598 million bushels (mb) while USDA made no monthly changes to domestic corn or soybean supply or demand in the December World Ag...
9 Dec 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Looking to get more out of each pound of fertilizer you use? There's a growing industry eager to meet that need, with companies each year marketing more soil or plant additives to farmers. Some are biologicals, some are synthetics and all aim to boost a crop's ability to unlock and uptake more nutrients from the soil. It's ...
9 Dec 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- As Congress tries to clear off some legislation before wrapping up the year, the House on Wednesday passed four bills the House Agriculture Committee had urged the full House to approve, including overwhelming support for an extension of the Livestock Mandatory (Price) Reporting Act and the creation of a library of cattle contra...