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Once both planned and unplanned maintenance at refineries are complete, expect farm diesel prices to soften. We often find opportunities to lock in attractive prices in December and we expect this year to be no different.
Senior Market Analyst Rich Posson -- a certified market technician -- provides Pro Farmer VIP Members a weekly chart update covering commodity markets.
LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed(‘limelight_player_475279'); Brian Grete explains how we compile the Pro Farmer weighted Crop Condition Index and how to use the data in this week’s Pro Farmer Profit Briefing segment on AgDay TV.
Potash and phosphate prices continued lower this week, and potash producers are nervous that the global potash supply overhang will force prices lower, especially given weak U.S. grain fundamentals.
After six years of planning, the Moes sign farm transition documents.
While fish is a primary source of protein that has many essential nutrients, health-promoting benefits and other nutritional qualities, fisheries and aquaculture are often overlooked in the global discussion of food security and hunger.
Nitrogen prices continued lower this week along with the rest of the fertilizer segment. This is a supply driven decline as much as it is a correction to better reflect wholesale prices. UAN32 is priced just 1/4 of a cent above expected margins with NH3. That is the closest we have seen UAN or urea come to parity with NH3.
Wholesale values have been far below retail prices and as retailers have resupplied at the onset of harvest, retail prices have fallen to a more appropriate relationship to wholesale prices. How long the downtrend will last is unknown, but as long as we are pointed lower, we will hold off on booking anymore fertilizer for fall or for spring.
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