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20 Oct 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The average retail price of three fertilizers increased by more than $100 per ton in the past month, according to prices tracked by DTN for the second week of October. Seven of the eight major fertilizers tracked by DTN took staggering jumps higher in that timeframe, and four now cost twice as much as last year. Leading t...
19 Oct 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- More than 80 agricultural groups are asking EPA to delay any attempt to revoke the use of the insecticide chlorpyrifos as agricultural groups criticized EPA's move to ban the pesticide for use on food and feed crops. Laying out a formal objection sent Tuesday to EPA, a coalition of "growers, retailers, co-ops, applicators, refiners, ...
19 Oct 2021
A compact system is going to be moving through the Corn Belt through Oct. 21 and will produce scattered showers from South Dakota through Michigan which could be moderate in some cases, especially in South Dakota and Minnesota. Snow is also forecast from eastern Wyoming and into western South Dakota yet again this week. Last week, 1 to 2 feet of sn...
19 Oct 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Frank Appleberry has a list of things to apply each spring to his crop fields in Tillar, Arkansas: preplant fertilizer, preemergence herbicides and oh, don't forget the liquid blend of pulverized caterpillars, teeming with live viruses. It sounds unconventional, but for a growing number of American farmers, this type of bioi...
19 Oct 2021
Owning a family business involves hundreds of decisions. Seed purchases, equipment trades, land purchases, input pricing, labor strategies and crop marketing are just the tip of the iceberg. Every day, you make dozens of choices that affect the efficiency, profitability and longevity of your farm. When adding family members to the decision-making p...