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15 Jul 2021
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (DTN) -- The key, David Hula said, is consistent emergence. Or at least it's a key to the world-record corn yields he's logged on his Virginia farm, topping out at the eye-popping 616-bushel-per-acre crop he harvested in 2019. "Several years ago, everyone was talking about that picket fence -- even spacing -- and how import...
15 Jul 2021
MINOT, N.D. (DTN) -- Adam Lee, who farms with his father near Plaza, North Dakota, looks around at area grass and pasture and notes how a few shots of rain in the past few weeks have started to green up the fields again. "It just raises everybody's spirits up a little because everything has greened up," Lee said. Farmers in Ward County, North Dakot...
14 Jul 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Kellie Blair just happened to look up this week to see a Charolais steer running past her farm office window sporting a halter, but no kid attached. "I just had to say to myself, welp... it's fair week," she said. Like many a 4-H parent over the years, the Dayton, Iowa, farmer finds herself putting the full-court press on her...
14 Jul 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to move higher, led by two products -- Potash and DAP -- according to retailers contacted for the first week of July 2021. Potash was up 9% compared to last month and had an average price of $491/ton. Potash has pushed higher in recent weeks thanks to supply issues and increasing global demand. The o...
13 Jul 2021
If it was COVID-19 that pressed the gas pedal on small tractor sales for more than 12 months straight, it might also be that as public concern for the virus diminishes, and stay-at-home workers return to the office, the foot is coming off the gas pedal. For much of 2020 and into spring 2021, sales of tractors of less than 100 horsepower (hp) -- esp...