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15 Jul 2021
By Logan Garcia, Market Reporter - Fertecon, Agribusiness Intelligence, IHS Markit The following is a breakdown of wholesale prices and trends of the various fertilizers for June and early July 2021. AMMONIA Domestic: U.S. ammonia continued to see limited activity in June ahead of summer fill announcements, which eventually came at mid-month but we...
15 Jul 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Cupped soybean fields are surfacing across the South and Midwest again this summer, and with them, a new crop of rumored causes. Once again, however, the simplest explanation for those puckered up soybeans remains off-target dicamba applications, agronomists and weed scientists told DTN. Tens of millions of acres of dicamba-...
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...