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31 Aug 2015
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- Defining a fair rent is likely to get a little tricky this fall. Landowners read the headlines, "Cash rents have to come down" for farmers to survive. "But my landowning clients ask what about equipment costs, family living expenses and crop inputs?" said Dale Aupperle with Hea...
31 Aug 2015
By Cheri ZagurskiDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn condition ratings dropped slightly while soybean conditions held steady in the week ended Aug. 30, according to USDA's latest Crop Progress report. Sixty percent of the nation's corn crop is in the dent stage and 9% is mature, compared to 39% and not available last week and five-year averages...
31 Aug 2015
By Ken JohnsonDTN Fertilizer Columnist AMMONIA World ammonia prices were flat through August with Yuzhnyy quoted at $380 to $395 per metric ton fob (free on board -- the buyer pays for transportation of the goods). (All prices in this column are wholesale.) In mid- and late-August, a number of plant turnarounds were announced in both FSU and Middle...
28 Aug 2015
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) -- In the Dakotas, managers at one farm operation have rehearsed how to break the news to landlords they plan to terminate their least-profitable rental properties this fall. In central Ohio, another 5,000-plus-acre operator has eyed his bottom 10% leases for possible culls. Farms ...
28 Aug 2015
By Dan DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist Driving around parts of the Corn Belt the last two weeks, I have seen fields of corn going into their end game. Many of them seem to be aging a bit prematurely -- taking on a light yellow appearance, which indicates senescence is probably just around the corner. My guess is it's also denting prematurely af...