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26 Oct 2020
If you've been so busy harvesting corn lately you haven't noticed prices, you'll be glad to hear December corn was up the first four days of this week and closed at $4.16 1/4 Thursday (Oct. 22), the highest in over a year. If you're trying to feed cattle or buy corn for your ethanol plant, these higher prices are getting annoying and don't make sen...
23 Oct 2020
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN looks at how robots performing row-crop field operations won a Chicago Innovation Award, a new report identifies initiatives to help farmers have a stronger relationship with equipment manufacturers, and Deere introduces three new snowblowers. ** RISE OF THE ROBOTS Sabanto Inc. has been named a winner in the 19th annu...
23 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA released a flurry of interim registration decisions for 13 pyrethroid insecticides and one herbicide, paraquat, on Thursday morning. The decisions remain interim and not finalized, as the agency still has additional assessments to conduct, but they are a major step toward establishing the chemicals' continued use in the ...
22 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Chances are you get a blood pressure reading with each doctor visit. If that number is higher than it should be, steps are taken to keep the problem in check. The same is true of soybean cyst nematode (SCN). A simple test can tell you if nematodes are present and if management measures are working. Yet each year farmers ignor...
22 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mixed the second week of October 2020, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. For the sixth week in a row, prices for five of the eight major fertilizers were lower, while prices for the remaining three nutrients were higher. The difference this week was prices for two of the three fe...