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16 Apr 2020
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to be mostly higher the first full week of April 2020, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. As was the case the previous week, the moves higher were fairly small. Seven fertilizers were slightly higher in price compared to last month. DAP had an average pri...
16 Apr 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- The coronavirus has halted parts of the economy, but leaders from the U.S. Soybean Export Council are highlighting that the industry continues to export and look at market opportunities even through the pandemic. This week, USSEC is holding a virtual conference with roughly 2,000 people ...
16 Apr 2020
By ShayLe StewartDTN Livestock Analyst If there's one thing we in the cattle industry prayed for regarding the COVID-19 headache, besides the safety of our families, it was that packing plants wouldn't shut down. Cattlemen can endure a lot, but the crippling effects the novel coronavirus threw the market into has pushed every sector of the industry...
15 Apr 2020
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- With milk prices plunging lower and demand for dairy products declining because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some dairy processors do not have the storage capacity to take delivery of milk. As a result, some farms have been forced to dump milk into their manure storage facilities. There are several diffe...
15 Apr 2020
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Amid coronavirus-related lockdowns, most states and university administrations have deemed soil and plant diagnostic testing laboratories as "essential" services, able to remain open to accept samples from farmers and scientists this spring and summer. "In the time of COVID-19, plants st...