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17 May 2023
WICHITA, Kan. (DTN) -- The southwest corner of Kansas on Wednesday was like a land time forgot. Despite it being a modestly warm day in late spring, there was no fieldwork underway and few acres, if any, had been planted with fall crops. The wheat, sown last fall, hovered frozen between life and death, seemingly too small and sparse to make a crop,...
17 May 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The EPA granted Corteva Agriscience and Adama US authorization in April to begin receiving returned shipments of chlorpyrifos-based products, after the agency canceled the insecticide's registration. In an April 19, 2023, memorandum posted to the Federal Register, EPA issued a list of chlorpyrifos products that can be returne...
17 May 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices moved in opposite directions the second week of May 2023, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Half of the fertilizers are higher compared to last month, while the other half is lower. One fertilizer is considerably higher, and another is notably lower. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or mo...
16 May 2023
COLBY, Kan. (DTN) -- Gregory Jordan can remember the last major drought on the property he now farms south of Beloit, Kansas. Barely. He wasn't yet 3 years old and some of his very first memories, just snapshots, really, include a TV crew coming into their central Kansas farmhouse to interview his dad, Michael, about the year's failed crop. And he ...
12 May 2023
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (DTN) -- The rain finally came, washing across the state of Kansas early this week, more than 2 inches in spots from Wichita to Manhattan and more than 3 in at least one spot to the west, Larned. There were even flood warnings in the northwest corner of the state, something few farmers in the area could complain about in wh...