Entries for February 2020
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13 Feb 2020
DTN Closing Grain Comments 02/13 13:43 Soybeans Shrug Off Bearish Coronavirus News to Close Higher Early on Thursday, news that the number of infections and deaths from coronavirus, as a new and quicker testing method was used, sent equities, energies and ag commodities to early losses. Soybeans and crude oil were able to overcome that early sellin...
13 Feb 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 13, 2020 – Today, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has invested $9 million in four, high-speed broadband infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 3,744 rural households, 31 businesses, 41 farms and a critical community facility in Ten...
13 Feb 2020
DTN Midday Livestock Comments 02/13 12:24 Livestock Contracts Head into Noon Hour Strong Thursday is starting to shape up to a strong day for all livestock contracts as the entire sector heads for higher prices. By ShayLe Stewart DTN Livestock Analyst General Comments Little by little more interest develops in the livestock sector as each market pu...
13 Feb 2020
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor When a younger Greg Vollmer built his shop 10 years ago, he felt like it was about all he could bite off at the time. He soon found the shop too small. "That shop got full very quickly," he said. By 2017, he added two additional work bays, a three-office business center with meeting space and laundry, a...
13 Feb 2020
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The majority of retail fertilizer prices continued their months-long trend of moving lower the first week of February 2020. However, for the first in quite some time, three fertilizers were slightly higher compared to the previous month, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Only one fertilizer had a s...