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18 Oct 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The retail prices of all eight major fertilizers climbed higher in the second week of October, with anhydrous, MAP and UAN32 posting the largest gains. DTN polls retail fertilizer sellers each week to compile price estimates and considers a price change of 5% or more to be significant. Anhydrous prices climbed 16% on aver...
17 Oct 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Highlighting the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), USDA announced the program has paid out $1.77 billion this month to landowners in the program. CRP acreage under the Biden administration has increased 4.3 million acres since early 2021 to 24.8 million acres now, a 21% bump. With new contract enrollments starting with the 2024 fis...
17 Oct 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A federal lawsuit in Kansas challenging a recent action by the Biden administration on the lesser prairie chicken has been transferred to a federal court in Texas. The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas on Monday granted a motion by the federal government to move the case filed in July by a group of Kansas farms, ...
17 Oct 2023
By Logan Garcia, Market Reporter -- Fertecon, S and P Global Commodity Insights The following is a recap of fertilizer price trends and market developments for the month of September. AMMONIA Domestic: September was a month of firming prices in the U.S. ammonia market. Increases were attributed to a near-record year of sales for prepaid ammonia, ac...
16 Oct 2023
This article was originally published at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 16. It was last updated with additional information at 3:56 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 16. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- The nation's soybean harvest jumped to a 10-point lead over the five-year average, and the corn harvest also remained slightly ahead of the average pace by the end of last ...