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1 Aug 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices made very minor moves in the fourth week of July, according to prices tracked by DTN, with none of the prices changing by more than $3 per ton. Three fertilizers were lower compared to the previous month with none down a significant amount, which DTN considers 5% or more. MAP ...
1 Aug 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Scott Wallis will tell you downtime on a farm is a rare commodity. And the 2019 growing season has made planning anything more difficult this year. "Scouting has been something else with all the staggered maturities," said Wallis, who farms near Princeton, Indiana....
31 Jul 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst It's a strange year when I can go on a crop tour across the Western Corn Belt and the corn fields of North Dakota look tall, lush and robustly promising, but by the time I entered eastern Iowa, it was as if the nation's crops had suddenly played musical chairs and upended their usual geographic distribution. It...
31 Jul 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES, Iowa (DTN) -- As Democratic presidential candidates traipse through Iowa talking about their plans to address climate change, a mixed group of farmers and biofuel advocates are stressing the role agriculture can play as a solution. Matt Russell, executive director of Iowa Interfaith Power and Ligh...
31 Jul 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers facing financial distress are better off not kicking the can down the road, experts on farm finances said during a webinar Tuesday. Donald L. Swanson, an attorney with Omaha-based law firm Koley Jessen PC LLO, who has helped farm families since the 1980s farm crisis, said strategies to improve...