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Farmers in Sac, Calhoun and Buena Vista exhaled a collective sigh of relief this week when Iowa’s Supreme Court ruled Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) cannot sue the counties. The company was seeking damages for excess nitrates in the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers.

A 200-bu.-per-acre corn crop consumes 330 lb. to 350 lb. of nitrogen per acre. Know your soil’s nitrogen-supplying power to fine-tune application rates.

Country better prepared to handle outbreak than rest of region.

Farmers find another tool under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with pyrethroids’ draft environmental risk assessment and associated comment period ending March 31. The outcome of this review could leave farmers with one less tool in the insecticide toolbox.

China holds about half of world’s corn and cotton inventories.

There are several ways to categorize fertilizers. One logical way to look at them is as “granulars” and “liquids.” For the purposes of this comparison, anhydrous ammonia (technically a liquid) will not be considered.

So far, favorable South American weather forecasts support estimates of increased crop production in Brazil and Argentina. As a result, some analysts are betting on bigger U.S. ending stocks.

Brazil ‘s government grain agency CONAB raised its estimates Tuesday for record bumper crops of soybeans and grains.

Market psychology took a negative turn this week on the latest export figures, but the numbers don’t paint as bleak a picture as it seems, says Jerry Gulke of the Gulke Group. Also, keep watching weather in South America.

Pests have wiped out entire corn fields since last month.