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14 Aug 2024
By Katie Dehlinger, DTN Farm Business Editor, and Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Minnesota entered the year with a moisture deficit but has spent most of the season battling a surplus. When more than 10 inches of rain fell on saturated soils in early summer, the devastating floods in July drew national headlines. Abu...
14 Aug 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Iowa pulled itself out of drought and into a record corn crop, if the DTN Digital Yield Tour estimates hold true. An active rainy pattern settled over the state this spring, and while it slowed planting season down, most areas benefitted from the replenishing rainfall. Parts of the state's northwest received too much rain...
14 Aug 2024
This article was originally posted at 6:30 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Aug. 13. It was updated with additional information at 10:13 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Aug. 14. ** JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- While record-breaking performances received overwhelming fanfare at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games this summer, another record was quietly being broken in the red ...
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 ...