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25 Feb 2016
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA Chief Economist Robert Johansson's early acreage estimates released at USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum for 2016 reinforce early bearish fundamental outlooks for major row crops. "Johansson estimated 90 million acres of corn will be planted in 2016, up 2% from 2015, but still down from the pea...
25 Feb 2016
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The gloom overhanging commodity prices isn't expected to lift anytime soon, if forecasts from USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum released Thursday hold true. In fact, barring unforeseen production failures somewhere on the globe or a sudden reversal in exchange rates, U.S. crop farme...
25 Feb 2016
By Jim PatricoProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Sounds like magic: Attach a set of sensors to your fertilizer applicator, drive it across a cornfield and sit back in the cab as technology "sees" crop health and applies the right amount of nutrients to produce the most profitable crop. That is the promise of technologies such as GreenSeeker by Trimbl...
24 Feb 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Cotton farmers looking for further federal support are caught in a political tussle that doesn't appear to have any quick solution. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack stood his ground Wednesday in a House Agriculture Committee hearing looking at the state of the rural economy. Vilsack maint...
24 Feb 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The rusty orange dust that coated Scates Farm's combines last fall was as damaging as it was messy and unexpected. The dust came from the Southern corn rust disease that swept through southern Illinois in August and damaged the Scates' late-season corn hybrids -- nearly one-third of thei...