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6 Dec 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Stacking up scale tickets, checking bushel totals against acreage maps, filing elevator assembly sheets into folders, signing contracts, depositing checks, and ultimately, seeing the end-of-year balance on an operating loan. These are the things that a grain-farming operation can only do once harvest is complet...
6 Dec 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- With a couple of exceptions, retail prices for most fertilizers continued to rise the fourth week of November 2018, according to fertilizer sellers surveyed by DTN. Six of the eight major fertilizers were slightly higher, but none had a significant price move compared to last month. MAP had an averag...
5 Dec 2018
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The mysterious orange maggots that drilled into soybean stems and killed plants in parts of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota last summer now have known adult relatives. Entomologists were able to capture the adult version of the soybean gall midge in the ...
5 Dec 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor CHICAGO (DTN) -- Chinese officials on Wednesday reiterated positive signs coming out of the talks between the U.S. and China, but Chinese leaders provided few details in official statements about those talks. Still, a report out of China indicated "Chinese officials have begun preparing to restart imports of U.S...
5 Dec 2018
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Adviser CHICAGO (DTN) -- China's pork industry is in the midst of major structural changes, and the outbreak of African swine fever in the hog herd is creating regional supply and demand imbalances unlike any China's seen before. In 2015, the government embarked on an environmental plan to improve water quality ...