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14 Aug 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for all eight major fertilizers were down again during the first full week of August 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. This marks the third week in a row that prices for all fertilizers fell just slightly. DTN designates a significant price move as anything 5% or more. DAP had an average price of $744...
13 Aug 2024
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- For the second consecutive year, Georgia farmer Alex Harrell has set a new world record for soybean production. Earlier on Tuesday, he harvested a 2.5757-acre plot of irrigated soybeans averaging 218.2856 bushels per acre (bpa), eclipsing the record he set last year in 2023 by more than 11 bpa. Wes Porter, an associate ...
13 Aug 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Crops planted in a window in late April appear to outshine others in Ohio, where drought lingers on the Corn Belt's eastern fringe. Patchy and highly variable, the corn crop will be unlikely to challenge records, but soybeans could make their case as sunny, warm, wet weather further helps pods fill -- in some cases to the...
13 Aug 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Illinois' growing season got off to a wet start. Planting got done in windows here and there, sometimes late or in less-than-ideal conditions. June turned hot and dry, raising alarms of a 2023 repeat, only to be assuaged by generous rainfall from several strong weather events that came with a side of hail and a blast of w...
13 Aug 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA will test the muscle tissue of as many as 800 cull dairy cows at processing plants to see if any of the meat tests positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus. There have not been any positive tests of meat samples in three different studies USDA conducted earlier this spring. USDA announced the new meat inspections Tuesday as the FDA...