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28 Jun 2019
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1, 2019 was 75.5 million head. This was up 4% from June 1, 2018, and up 1% from March 1, 2019. This is the highest June 1 inventory of all hogs and pigs since estimates began in 1964, USDA reported on Thursday. Breeding inventory, at 6.41 million head, was up 1% from l...
28 Jun 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Exceptionally wet field conditions forced many Corn Belt corn producers to choose between applying nitrogen fertilizer and planting corn during the narrow windows available for fieldwork this spring. For some farmers, planting was a top priority and fertilizer application was secondary, thanks to the ...
28 Jun 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- North Dakota has become the latest state to extend in-crop dicamba use, even as the first injury reports of 2019 start to trickle in from other parts of the country. The North Dakota Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday that it has extended its June 30 cutoff date to July 10....
27 Jun 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices saw only minor changes from last month with four fertilizers posting slightly higher prices while one was lower and two were unchanged, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the third week of June 2019. Of the gainers, urea had an average price of $435 per ...
27 Jun 2019
By Lori CullerDTN HR Columnist It's the end of June, and there are still too many acres without crops in the ground. Our farm started in 1941, and according to my father's impeccable record keeping, this is the latest time of year we have planted and the worst spring conditions we have seen on the farm. The unpredictable weather and temperatures...