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8 Apr 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Corteva Agriscience has pulled the plug on a new developmental dicamba product, the last in a series of moves over the past year to divest itself of controversial pesticides. The company opted to end the EPA registration process underway for a novel dicamba herbicide containing a dicamba choline salt -- a different form of ...
7 Apr 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to rise the last week of March 2021, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. But for the first time in many weeks, some fertilizers moved just slightly higher instead of considerably higher. While all eight of the major fertilizer were again higher, only five fertilizers moved significantly higher, wh...
7 Apr 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Insects and diseases are waking up and getting to work, and here at DTN, we have a growing inbox of pest alerts from across the Plains, Midwest, South and mid-Atlantic region. Here's what we're hearing this week: LEAF RUST AND STRIPE RUST In Texas and Oklahoma, it's shaping up to be a good spring for rust diseases, which lov...
7 Apr 2021
Wheat prices are pretty motivating this spring. And sure enough, the market plans to respond -- wheat acreage is expected to reach 46.4 million acres this year, up 5% from 2020. This isn't huge in historic terms (in fact, it's the fourth-lowest wheat acreage number since 1919). The highest-value wheat varieties -- durum and hard red spring wheat --...
7 Apr 2021
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the April 2021 edition of Progressive Farmer magazine. For more content from the latest edition of the magazine, visit https://www.dtnpf.com/…. ** Corn pours into Kelly Nieuwenhuis' combine grain tank this past fall as 20-plus mph winds keep two MidAmerican Energy wind turbines spinning in his fie...