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DAP and MAP were lower on the week as potash firmed slightly. DAP $90.99 below year-ago pricing -- lower 69 cents/st on the week to $443.78/st. MAP $115.09 below year-ago -- lower 10 cents/st this week
December 2016 natural gas opened today at $2.76 -- down 5 cents from our last Fuels in Focus. Farm Diesel is down 2 cents on the week at an average of $1.90 per gallon. December 2016 WTI crude oil opened
Anhydrous is $173.75 below year-ago pricing -- higher $1.34/st this week at $471.70. Urea is $91.95 below the same time last year -- higher $2.88/st this week to $316.96. UAN28% is $65.12 below year-ago
January 2016 natural gas opened today at $3.57 -- up 15 cents from our last Fuels in Focus. Farm Diesel is up 2 cents on the week at an average of $1.90 per gallon. February 2016 WTI crude oil opened the
The United States Department of Commerce has ruled to impose a provisional anti-subsidy duty on ammonium sulfate imports from China. The ruling would impose a 206.72 percent tax on ammonium sulfate for nitrogen
Anhydrous is $108.33 below year-ago pricing -- higher $2.93/st this week at $478.27. Urea is $26.70 below the same time last year -- higher $1.38/st this week to $346.62. UAN28% is $45.55 below year-ago
Anhydrous is $116.33 below year-ago pricing -- lower 79 cents/st this week at $471.36. Urea is $97.84 below the same time last year -- higher $4.36/st this week to $339.20. UAN28% is $57.06 below year-ag
DAP, MAP and potash were all higher on the week. DAP $43.22 below year-ago pricing -- higher $3.16/st on the week to $446.11/st. MAP $49.05 below year-ago -- higher $3.18/st this week to $447.08/st. P
Scouts on the western leg of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour crossed the border into Iowa this morning, and so far they are seeing good-looking corn and, in places, really tall beans.
Top Producer will be honoring one outstanding young producer this year at its Tomorrow’s Top Producer event, which takes place Jan. 15-17, 2019 in Chicago.
Expert speakers will include The Farm CPA Paul Neiffer and attorney Polly Dobbs.
Download some of the presentations from the 2011 Top Producer Seminar and Tomorrow’s Top Producer event.
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Big changes are underway for the ninth year of Farm Journal College events.
Just as this magazine went to press, we welcomed Andrew McCrea and his daily nationally syndicated radio program, “American Countryside,” to our Farm Journal Media family.
Provisional anti-subsidy duties against ammonium sulfate imports from China have been levied via a January 10 Commerce Department ruling.
Navarro is a fierce China critic whose policy recommendations, if adopted by Trump, would assuredly cause China to react, perhaps against U.S. farm products and in particular, soybeans.
Results of an investigation by China into imports of U.S. distiller’s dried grains (DDGs) is expected to come soon from the Chinese Commerce Ministry, according to signals from U.S. trade and industry sources.
The U.S. is launching a challenge at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on China’s domestic price supports for the production of rice, wheat and corn, US officials announced Tuesday (Sept. 13), a likely action we alerted Pro Farmer members to months ago.
Barriers linked with Cuba’s state-controlled economy may make it hard for foreign partners to trade or invest in the country, but the lifting of restrictions could expand US exports, especially US farm products, the International Trade Commission (ITC) said in a report released Apr. 18.
It appears the Obama administration late this year, after Nov. 8 elections, will file several trade complaints with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Chinese support for its corn, wheat and rice industries.
Brazil’s soybean growers association, APROSOJA, has reportedly requested that their government consider filing a WTO case against the U.S. soybean crop insurance program.
There has been substantial progress made in recent talks between the U.S. and South Africa, despite comments to the contrary by the general media.
FFA chapters across the country are taking part in National FFA Week activities.
Farmers should see a slight decrease in cash rental rates in the year ahead. Here’s what you can expect.
Analysts still view soybeans as a market for opportunity in 2018.
Supply is currently outpacing demand. If that continues hay prices will remain relatively the same.
Analysts expect an even greater global wheat glut in 2017 to drive down prices and whittle away at acreage.