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19 Apr 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices continued their slow but steady trek higher the second week of April 2018, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. Snapping a string of four straight weeks where prices for all eight major fertilizers were higher, prices for seven of the eight fertilizers were up ...
19 Apr 2018
By Karl Wolfshohl Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS: -- Update planters with precision ag technology -- Consider soil electrical conductivity mapping to check fertility -- Use yield-mapping programs to understand limiting factors. ** Farming in a great environment has put big corn yields in the bins for Vern Frederickson a...
19 Apr 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- After hours of criticism by Democrats on changes to food programs, the House Agriculture Committee passed a farm bill out of committee Wednesday on a strictly partisan 26-20 vote as every Republican voted for the bill and every Democrat opposed it. Chairman Michael Conaway, R-Texas, told repo...
18 Apr 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- It may be at least a year before farmers and others start to receive payments from a $1.51 billion settlement from a lawsuit filed following Syngenta's release of Agrisure Viptera and Agrisure Duracade MIR162 corn traits. A federal court recently approved three additional subclasses of parties alleged...
18 Apr 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- On Monday, Arkansas' in-season ban on dicamba went into effect, but not without some confusion and drama. Two judges in Phillips and Mississippi counties filed temporary restraining orders of the ban late last week, in response to two separate but mostly identical complaints filed by abo...