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26 Oct 2023
Dick Judah has watched wheat's fortunes roll around more than once in his farming career. This year, the crop literally shined for the Hillsboro, Oregon, farmer. The variety he planted, LCS Shine, hit 173.77 bushel per acre (bpa), enough to win him the top honors in the dryland winter wheat category. The most competitive of the National Wheat Yield...
25 Oct 2023
DES MOINES (DTN) -- While the accolades and scale of the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue have gotten bigger over the decades, the challenges of addressing global hunger have gotten worse. Named after famed Iowa wheat breeder Norman Borlaug, a 1970 Nobel Prize recipient, the Borlaug Dialogue over the decades has built its success on highlighting a...
25 Oct 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Some corn farmers won't need a yield loss to trigger a crop insurance payment this year, while many more are looking at a combination of yields and prices that will likely lead to an indemnity check. "I wouldn't expect most farmers to have large payments, but some will have pretty good payments," University of Illinois ag...
25 Oct 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Retail prices of all eight major fertilizers continued to climb in the third week of October, with anhydrous leading the way while farmers continued to hit the fields. Anhydrous climbed 6% on average to $809 per ton, the only significant jump this week. DTN surveys retail fertilizer sellers weekly to establish price estimates...
24 Oct 2023
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- As the old saying goes, "You have to be in it to win it." In 2022, Brad Disrud simply wasn't in it. "I should have entered the contest last year," the farmer from Rolla, North Dakota, reluctantly admitted. "I don't know if I would have won, but we had some really good wheat that I think would've been in the running. So,...