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4 Aug 2021
A heavy downpour would be a disaster for most field days. But, the muddy mess was the perfect opportunity for Michael Ott, CEO of Rantizo, to show off how a new system of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) works together to spray pesticides and seed crops. "If you needed to spray today, you couldn't with a ground rig," Ott says during a media day at t...
4 Aug 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Farmers could purchase a ton of potash for $353 last July. That same ton of fertilizer costs $549 today, according to DTN's weekly survey of fertilizer retailers for the last week of July 2021. While the average retail cost of potash is up 15% from the same time last month, none of the seven other fertilizers tracked by D...
4 Aug 2021
Des KellerProgressive Farmer Editor Inside a portion of a large industrial warehouse in Gas City, Indiana, farmer-owned Heartland Harvest Processing is at the forefront of the effort to move beyond the initial boom -- and near bust -- of the hemp-growing CBD (cannabidiol) oil market. The company is the creation of Kline Family Farms -- Jim Kline an...
3 Aug 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA's rural watershed and flood prevention program is just one area that will see an injection of funds under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) as the Senate continues to debate the bill. Senators continue votes to amend the 2,700-page bill, which is projected to increase spending on an array of infrastructure p...
3 Aug 2021
The wall is finally going to open a window. The blocking ridge that has been so consistent across western North America since early June has shown only a couple of weaknesses over the last two months. This time, it will finally give way to a pair of systems that will move through the western half of the continent. One is currently located in the Gu...