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3 May 2019
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (DTN) -- After Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other Republican senators met with President Donald Trump on trade Thursday, Grassley issued a statement that, "as a family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee," he was glad to present his view...
3 May 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst As DTN Staff Reporter Emily Unglesbee said in her kickoff article from the Wheat Quality Council's 2019 Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Tour, "It's become one of the surest signs that spring is underway..." (https://www.dtnpf.com/…) Unglesbee joined tour scouts this week, driving all over Kansas, making meticulous yield ...
3 May 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- The Kansas winter wheat crop could produce an average yield of 47.2 bushels per acre (bpa), according to the final estimate of the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Tour. That's up from USDA's final yield of 38 bpa last year, when dry conditions hampered wheat yields ea...
3 May 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Scott Wallis is a nuts-and-bolts row-crop farmer. The Princeton, Indiana, farmer loves everything about making a crop of corn and soybeans come to life and coaxing every bushel he can from a plot of land. There is something he gets more charged up about than agrono...
3 May 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter WICHITA (DTN) -- Crop scouts produced an average estimated yield of 47.6 bushels per acre (bpa), up from 35.2 bpa last year, on the second day of the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Tour. Scouts stopped at 200 fields in southwestern and south-central Kansas. Tuesday, the tour explored centra...