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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.

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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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.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Department of Justice announced this week that they have reached a settlement with Lakes Gas Companies regarding complaints related to propane prices during the historic runup in winter 2013-14. During the week of February 21, 2014, Wisconsin LP prices surged to as high as $5.10 per gallon according to Inputs Monitor data.

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