
Financial Impacts of Soil Health
A new study released Wednesday cited that farmers can increase both profits and crop yields up to 25% by adopting regenerative-agricultural practices such as no-till and cover crops. But making that transition...
A new study released Wednesday cited that farmers can increase both profits and crop yields up to 25% by adopting regenerative-agricultural practices such as no-till and cover crops. But making that transition...
Most retail fertilizer prices continue to move lower. Five of the eight major fertilizers are now less expensive compared to last month. Only one fertilizer, anhydrous, showed a significant decline. The nitrogen fertilizer is 10% lower with an average price...
Nematologists are encouraging farmers to avoid falling into the resistance trap with Peking soybean varieties by rotating to prolong their usefulness.
Reports of some early season pests have agronomists urging farmers to put boots into their soybean fields and start scouting.
In a 16-state trial of nationally marketed foliar fertilizers, university researchers determined these products did not consistently increase soybean yield or alter grain composition and are likely to decrease...
Stronger fields in the central part of the state of Kansas for the Winter Wheat Tour helped bump up the expected average for this year's wheat crop.
The annual Wheat Quality Council's Hard Winter Wheat tour wrapped up Thursday, May 18, with a total weighted average yield estimate of 30 bushels per acre.
Southwest Kansas fields seemed to have taken the worst of the drought damage with large percentages of dryland acres facing abandonment.
The EPA granted authorization to Corteva Agriscience and Adama US to begin receiving returned shipments of chlorpyrifos insecticide products sold by the companies, following the agency revocation of chlorpyrifos' registration.
Retail fertilizer prices are moving in opposite directions. Half the fertilizer prices are higher, led by urea, which was 6% more expensive compared to last month with an average price of $664 per ton. The other half are lower, led by anhydrous, which...
Day 1 of the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Winter Wheat tour concluded Tuesday, May 16, with a total weighted average yield estimate of 29.8 bushels per acre (bpa).
April proved to be a strong month for preplant fertilizer demand, boosting wholesale prices for some fertilizers. However, anhydrous ammonia prices fell, as a long-overdue price correction coincided with the spring preplant period, which saw offers...
Expectations are that an ongoing drought has greatly stressed the 2023 wheat crop in Kansas, and this week more than 100 people will tour the state to try to assess just how bad the damage is.
Alberta wildfires continue to burn in several locations across the province, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate their homes. The various wildfires have burnt just over 1 million acres so far this year. Officials warned residents to be careful...
The 2023 planting season is well underway for most members of the DTN Farmer Advisory Group, but in many cases, those planters are rolling across dry ground that's prompting concern.
Forage producers in the High Plains are seeing plenty of barriers at the beginning of the growing season. These challenges include continuing drought and high populations of pests. While some areas have seen a...
Retail fertilizer prices are mixed for the first full week of May 2023. Five of the eight major fertilizers were lower with the remaining three slightly higher. Anhydrous led fertilizers lower, down 8% from last month...
The Center for Biological Diversity told a federal court in a lawsuit that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has not responded to a four-year-old petition asking the agency to restrict pesticides use in critical...