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As wheels begin to turn for spring fieldwork, this week’s price action may lend clues to our summertime outlook.
Our first look at fertilizer and farm fuels pricing for the week ended March 24, 2017.
Rains were not adequate enough last week to stabilize winter wheat crops in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Cotton acres are gaining momentum in Mississippi as price and yields point to a more favorable option for farmers this year. That’s also helping strengthen cotton equipment prices, a trend Machinery Pete is watching closely.
Cotton and pork sales were also highly impressive. Get more report highlights.
Revisions within food-at-home areas include poultry & eggs, fruits and vegetables.
Farmers have used glyphosate safely for decades, but in recent years anti-GMO activists have tried to target the product - aided by a sensationalist media - because it often works in harmony with biotechnology.
Urea failed to violate last year’s price and has actually softened this week. But the nitrogen margins suggest upside risk for the rest of the segment.