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1 Apr 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of March 2021, some fertilizer prices are still climbing at pretty good clip, while others have not increased as much as in recent weeks. Like last week, only seven of the eight major fertilizers were up a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more. ...
1 Apr 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure package goes beyond roads and bridges to putting the wheels in motion to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in agriculture, as well as increasing federal spending for needs such as broadband and inland waterways. Among the policies included in the White House infrastructure plan being pit...
30 Mar 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Spring is here, and while farmers are itching to get into the field, market analysts are deep into their annual acreage guessing game. On Wednesday, USDA will release its survey-based acreage estimate, the Prospective Plantings report. Analysts tell DTN that predicting planted acreage is especially difficult this year. Be...
30 Mar 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Corn residue management could be more challenging this spring in fields affected by last summer's derecho. But there are steps farmers can take to minimize residue issues before and during planting to maximize yield potential of this year's crop. For Dennis Bouchard and his son, Larry, of Jefferson, Iowa, that has meant delayi...
30 Mar 2021
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (DTN) -- The phone calls can start as early as 5 a.m. and ring and ring and ring until 10 p.m., to an answering service Brian Sieker set up, or to his cell phone. The online orders simply never stop with emails coming around the clock from farmers from all corners of the contiguous United States looking to refurbish and upg...