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6 Aug 2021
John Deere and its new $250 million technology acquisition, Bear Flag Robotics, said Friday that its autonomous driving technologies, already working on machines in California, will initially be offered as a retrofit product for existing tractors. "A retrofit product allows us to tap into a large install, and that's one of the big value drivers her...
6 Aug 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Drought may be the ag weather story of the season, but its impact on national corn and soybean production is up for debate, especially as regions of the southeastern Corn Belt report plentiful moisture and outstanding crop conditions. The 2021 DTN Digital Yield Tour, powered by Gro Intelligence, aims to provide a clearer ...
5 Aug 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Thursday announced that its USDA Market News on Monday, Aug. 9, will begin releasing price reports based on cattle sold on formulas, grids and contracts. The changes in reports come as USDA has been focusing on concentration in livestock markets and looking for ways to provide more price discovery beyond daily reported negoti...
5 Aug 2021
Haze from wildfires in the western U.S., along with western and south-central Canada, has been an ongoing feature across much of North America during summer 2021. Besides the concern over what the smoke particles will do to human health, there is also the question of how this material obscuring the heavens will affect corn during the important fill...
5 Aug 2021
INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- A central Illinois corn farmer will make a $24 per acre profit in 2022 after paying for inputs and land costs, according to the latest crop budgets from the University of Illinois. The return on soybeans fares better at $150 per acre because fertilizer, seed and drying costs for soybeans are projected to be $226 per acre ch...