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11 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers continued to be slightly lower than last month during the first week of September 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the seventh week in a row, no fertilizer price showed a substantial move in either direction. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5%...
10 Sep 2024
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Dry weather has extended into the Eastern Corn Belt with several states seeing an increase in poor pasture conditions for the week ended Sept. 9, according to the latest data from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Surveys show the states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio have had an increase in poor-to-very-po...
10 Sep 2024
USDA's corn and soybean production estimates will include objective yield data from the fields for the first time in Thursday's Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports and will get traders' attention, at least for a day. Analysts are expecting modest changes in the numbers, but there is still room for surp...
9 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farm leaders from opposite sides of the aisle agree the country needs a new farm bill, but they are split on taxes, regulations, trade policies and just how farmers and the agricultural economy will fare under the next presidency. The Farm Foundation on Monday hosted a live-streamed forum at the National Press Club to look at farm po...
9 Sep 2024
This article was originally published at 3:05 p.m. CDT on Monday, Sept. 9. It was last updated with additional information at 4:01 p.m. CDT on Monday, Sept. 9. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Dry, warm weather across much of the Corn Belt the past couple of weeks has rapidly pushed corn to maturity and resulted in a slightly earlier-than-normal start to the corn...