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19 May 2016
By Daniel DavidsonDTN Contributing Agronomist Micronutrients are getting more attention thanks to farmers doing more routine soil testing and plant analyses. Those tests show more micronutrient deficiencies even though farmers might not see foliar symptoms in the growing crop. Applying micronutrients also is making more economic sense because toda...
19 May 2016
By Elton Robinson Progressive Farmer Special Correspondent Excitement for cotton has been palpable this spring in the Buffalo Island region of northeast Arkansas. Bags of cottonseed filled retail warehouses and local gins geared up for a big season early based on falling prices in competing commodities and generous gin rebate and equity programs f...
19 May 2016
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- Brazilian farmers have jumped into the soybean market in recent weeks and sold an unusually large portion of the 2016-17 crop only a short time after they harvested the last crop. According to Celeres, a local grain consultancy, farmers have committed to sell 16.4% of th...
18 May 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices continued to hold steady the second week of May 1016, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. Retail fertilizer prices have been steady for five consecutive weeks now. Prices of four fertilizers were lower while four were higher compared to last month, thoug...
18 May 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Conventional biofuels such as corn ethanol would receive a boost if proposed Renewable Fuel Standard volumes released Wednesday for 2017 hold up. Still, at least one major ethanol industry group said the proposal released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still is not following the law. Repr...