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8 Feb 2018
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor It's not a rare sight for the lights to be burning late as Quint Pottinger stacks another pallet of 50-pound bags of corn -- filling, weighing and sewing each bag closed. From the modest-sized shop where Quint has installed a grain cleaner, bagger and certified floor scale, his Affinity Farms-labeled co...
8 Feb 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The retail fertilizer market appears to be stuck on replay, as average prices for most fertilizers moved higher again the last week of January 2018, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. All but one of the eight major fertilizers were higher compared to a month earlier. One difference from previous w...
8 Feb 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- There were a number of reasons that East Coast refiner Philadelphia Energy Solutions filed for Chapter 11 protection, and despite the company's claims, the costs to comply with the Renewable Fuel Standard was the least among them, according to a memorandum released on Tuesday by Sen. Charles Grassley,...
7 Feb 2018
By Karl Stenerson Market Reporter - Fertecon Informa Agribusiness Intelligence Here is a breakdown of wholesale prices and trends of the various fertilizers: AMMONIA International: Ammonia prices came under pressure in late January. Production outages in Algeria, Egypt, Russia and Ukraine were resolved. Unsold metric tons are struggling to find ho...
7 Feb 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst According to a recent press release from the Soy Transportation Coalition (STC), they noted there is "widespread agreement that it is not a matter of if there will be a failure at one or more of our key lock and dam sites, it is a matter of when." "A failure of significant duration -- particularly during and subseq...