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DTN Retail Fertilizer Trends

2 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for most major fertilizers were lower in the fourth week of September 2024, with prices for two fertilizers down significantly, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were lower compared to last month, a trend that has continued for the last few weeks. Prices for tw...

Hurricane Moisture Improves Pastures

1 Oct 2024
DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Hurricane Helene brought moisture to areas of the country where the rain was much needed. Helene brought improvements in pasture and range conditions despite her destruction, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service report for the week ending Sept. 30. Parts of the East Coast and Ohio Valley see pastur...

EPA Further Restricts Chlorpyrifos Use

1 Oct 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced new measures designed to protect threatened and endangered species from the effects of the insecticide chlorpyrifos. The measures announced include new product labels that contain additional protections and direct pesticide applicators to consult EPA's Bulletins Li...

Give Nematodes Their Day

1 Oct 2024
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- A writing mentor once advised "teach, don't preach" when writing about agriculture. The advice is hard to follow when it comes to soybean cyst nematode (SCN). No other pest hurts the soybean bottom line like SCN. After decades of preaching about the need for testing, there's still work to be done encouraging farmers to learn ...

NC Farmers Pull Together After Helene

1 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Sarah Clayton (no relation to the author) was sitting in a pickup Monday afternoon at one of the few hotspots in her county where she and her husband could pick up a few bars of cellular phone service. "We've been coming here every few days or so to check messages and call family that are out of town just to get information out and g...
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