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9 Mar 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON, D.C. (DTN) -- Count Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue as among those worried about the impact of steel and aluminum tariffs that President Donald Trump has said he is committed to implementing on imports. Perdue didn't exactly defend the president's plan to implement a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% ...
8 Mar 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst It is only the second day of March 2018 and already corn prices have had a lot to talk about. FOB corn prices, in particular, have been trending higher since December both in Brazil and New Orleans with help from ongoing concerns of drought in Argentina. Just this week, FOB corn prices in Brazil and New Orleans jumped 23...
8 Mar 2018
By Barb Baylor AndersonProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor Larry Rhodes has always relied on Mother Nature and patience to restore the timber on his Angus seedstock cow/calf operation. Conservation is a passion for this Carlinville, Illinois, producer. So, it was an easy decision about six years ago to add another tool to his timber-management p...
8 Mar 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to trend higher the fourth week of February 2018, according to retailers tracked by DTN. All eight of the major fertilizers again are higher compared to last month, but only one fertilizer was up a significant amount. Nitrogen fertilizer UAN32 was 7% more expensive co...
7 Mar 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst In the world of grain markets, nothing moves prices like talk of drought and, in early 2018, we already have two significant regions at risk -- Argentina and the southwestern U.S. Plains. Here in the U.S., July Kansas City wheat is up more than a dollar a bushel in 2018 -- a substantial move that was unimaginable back in ...