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20 Feb 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- It's well known that crops need the proper amounts of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) to produce healthy plants and top yields. Less known, but nearly as important, is sulfur (S). Plants not only need sulfur but also require it in the right form for plant availability. Research has also ...
20 Feb 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Two of three men indicted on 14 counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and making false statements to attain loans and crop insurance for Decatur, Michigan-based Stamp Farms LLC, have been sentenced to prison time. They have been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution as a r...
19 Feb 2019
By Joel ReichenbergerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor There's so much more now than there was -- more people, more traffic, more buildings -- but Glenn Arnold, 84 years old, stands on a ridge above his family's old homestead in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and can only focus on what is gone. "On the corner, that's where our house was," he said on a...
19 Feb 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Tom Schwieterman, who grows 750 acres of corn and soybeans near Burkettsville, Ohio, said he had heard about the size of Brazilian soybean farms for years, but didn't understand it. "You can look in any direction and see wide-open land and planted crops," Schwieterman said. "At home, every place ...
19 Feb 2019
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor The legend of American agriculture has been one of farmers turning west for new ground -- always west. Mark Lange looked east. His land, near O'Neill, Nebraska, lay at the edge of the state's Sandhills region. His crops were irrigated by an aquifer in decline. The state already had imposed water restric...