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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...
27 Jun 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- When the going gets tough in the farming world, the answer to the problem is often to work harder. "Somehow we always feel if we just do more, everything will work out," said Ashley Andersen, who farms with her family near Blair, Nebraska. That hasn't necessarily b...
26 Jun 2019
Editor's Note: Each year the Kansas City Board of Trade (now part of the CME Group), the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers provide updates of the Kansas wheat harvest. Today's update is the first report of the 2019 harvest. This is day 1 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought...
26 Jun 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Arguing against regulations classifying livestock as drugs, the National Pork Producers Council wants the Food and Drug Administration to yield regulatory oversight to USDA for gene-edited animals raised for food. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue also told farmers over the weekend he would lob...