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15 Feb 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As an Oklahoma Panhandle farmer, Jerod McDaniel almost every year plans for dry weather and hopes for rain. The Texhoma, Oklahoma, farmer/cattleman said extremely dry fall and winter conditions are changing farmers' fertility plans. Wheat -- usually topdressed in February -- and spring-planted crops co...
15 Feb 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retailer fertilizer prices continued their upward trend the first week of February 2018, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. All but one of the eight major fertilizers were higher compared to a month earlier. No fertilizer was up a noteworthy amount. DAP had an average price of $458 p...
15 Feb 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Pretty much all of us -- anyone who owns some stocks, ETFs or mutual funds -- went through the same emotional rollercoaster during the past several weeks. Checking the balances of our investment accounts or IRAs became a pleasant daily ritual during the month of January: "Look how much more it's worth today tha...
14 Feb 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA doled out hundreds of pages on the risks and benefits of neonicotinoid insecticides on Dec. 15 -- an early Christmas "gift" of sorts for farmers. Tempting as it to ignore these data-heavy documents, most corn, soybean and cottonseed in the country is coated with these chemicals, so t...
14 Feb 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers would pay a larger share of crop-insurance premiums and a range of ag industries would have to pony up fees for USDA services under the Trump administration's latest budget proposal released Monday. The White House proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2019 includes 10-year farm-bill cuts of $4...