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20 Jun 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Seed companies involved in an ongoing environmental cleanup at a former ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, are set to resume a pilot project started last year to remove wet cake from the abandoned AltEn site west of Omaha. In November 2023, the seed companies that once sent pesticides-laden seed to the plant as a feedstock to p...
20 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Friday's Cattle on Feed report isn't expected to rattle the market, as the analysts' estimates for the report are neutral. What will be important to note is the number of cattle on feed, those weighing 1,000 pounds or more. Given what we've recently seen in the cash cattle market, one is led to believe that supplies of market-ready c...
20 Jun 2024
Editor's Note: Weeds, insects and disease all have potential to reduce soybean yields, yet there's a hidden pest beneath the soil that costs U.S. farmers $1.5 billion annually. Despite this, soybean cyst nematode (SCN) often goes unchecked. In a special series called, "Stomp on SCN Yield Losses," DTN/Progressive Farmer has taken an in-depth look at...
19 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were down from last month during the second week of June 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. After a week in which no fertilizer prices moved considerably in either direction, prices of two fertilizers were down significantly, which DTN designates as anything 5% o...
19 Jun 2024
FORREST CITY, Ark. (DTN) -- At 86 years old, Ellis Bell got emotional last week telling the story about when he visited schools in St. Louis, Missouri, to talk to children about how farms work. Bell, a fourth-generation farmer, and Carolyn Jones, executive director of the Mississippi Minority Farmers Alliance, each have built a legacy of helping ed...