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15 Mar 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Fertilizer prices were still on the rise the first week of March 2017, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. This marks the seventh consecutive week prices have moved higher. For the third week in a row, all eight major fertilizers were higher compared to a month earlier, though none were...
14 Mar 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has placed a 90-day hold on a rule set to take effect Tuesday in response to the tragic April 2013 ammonium nitrate explosion at West Fertilizer Co. in West, Texas, as the agency considers writing a new rule. On Aug. 1, 2013, President Barack Obama issued an e...
14 Mar 2017
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser I remember a situation many years ago in which a son told his "retired" father to stop interfering in the business, and he threatened to call the sheriff the next time Dad set foot on the ranch. Calling law enforcement? That sounded so extreme, I thought. But then I came to see the reasons why the son migh...
14 Mar 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Net farm income falling for the fourth straight year is the key takeaway from a crop and livestock forecast released Monday by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri. The report projects declines in corn and wheat acres this spring, but FAPRI stil...
13 Mar 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- This bi-monthly column condenses the latest news in the field of crop technology, research and products. WATCH OUT WEEVIL Brazilian scientists have successfully inserted a Bt protein into cotton plants to target and kill the cotton boll weevil (CBW). The boll weevil was a major cotton pe...