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29 Jan 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Palmer amaranth, possibly the most aggressive weed American farmers have ever faced, is quickly becoming a familiar name to most row crop farmers. For nearly two decades, scientists and farmers have struggled to control it, as herbicide-resistant populations have spread steadily west and...
28 Jan 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst At the end of November 2018, I laid out what I thought looked like bullish arguments for soybean oil prices. Read "Soybean Oil, Ripe for Bullish Change" here: https://www.dtnpf.com/…. Fundamentally speaking, the article cited recent changes for soybean oil, such as a new mandate in Brazil, which starts in March 2018...
28 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and soybean prices rallied Friday as news broke that the partial federal government shutdown would end with a three-week short-term funding agreement. The reopening of the federal government might not take all the credit, but March soybeans were up 9 1/4 cents and November soybeans closed ove...
28 Jan 2019
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Blue Cross Blue Shield discontinued Nebraska farmer Randy Uhrmacher's group insurance plan at the beginning of 2018. He and his wife, Kathy, joined her employer's insurance for a year, but it was more expensive. "We were looking for better options," Uhrmacher said. At a 2018 fa...
25 Jan 2019
By Joel ReichenbergerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor History remembers little about June 22, 1969, but Dale Johnson does. That's the day he went from being a teenager who helped on the family farm to an actual farmer -- a young man with a plot and a plan. He rented a quarter section, 160 acres, from his grandfather, who'd taken on the ground near ...