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3 Oct 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- High nitrate levels in drinking water is largely a rural problem that is expensive to fix, and in order to help alleviate the problem, farms should be required to implement targeted conservation practices to reduce nutrients runoff, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Working Group. The E...
3 Oct 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Between new traits coming to market and the recent ag mergers, soybean seed catalogs are as thick as they are confusing this year. Depending on your seed retailer of choice, growers have up to five different herbicide-tolerant trait platforms to pick from for the 2019 season -- some new,...
3 Oct 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers plan to put more soybeans in bins this year amid a record harvest and trade dispute with China, the U.S.'s largest soybean buyer, but storing soybeans comes with its own set of challenges. Many farmers plan to nuse older, smaller grain bins to store their beans. Others are more comfortable s...
2 Oct 2018
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Justin Topp usually puts a portion of his soybean crop in storage every year, but with cash prices below $7 per bushel, he thinks this year will be the most he's ever stored. "They'll be stored for a while I'm assuming," the Grace City, North Dakota, farmer told DTN from the c...
2 Oct 2018
By Alan BruglerDTN Contributing Analyst The quarterly USDA Grain Stocks reports have a reputation for surprising the markets, and the Sept. 28 report was no exception. Corn, soybean and wheat supplies on Sept. 1 were all larger than the average trade guesses going into the report and above the upper end in the case of soybeans. It could be termed ...