Fertilizer-N is a big investment for crop production in Nebraska and elsewhere. After harvest, growers tend to plan their fertilizer-N management for the next year’s crop. But the question is how much nitrogen can they apply to get the most profit from their fertilizer-N investment? The most profitable fertilizer-N rate varies every year and it […]

Reuters writer Mark Weinraub reported late last week that, “U.S. corn and soybean supplies will be smaller than previously forecast, as adverse weather reduced the acreage that farmers will harvest, the U.S. government said on Friday. Soybean stocks were pegged at a five-year low, with rising exports eating into the stockpile, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department’s […]

Corn and soybean prices declined throughout much of the first half of 2020, with low prices persisting into early August. Since August, both corn and soybean prices have increased.  Overall, commodity price movements have increased the relative profitability of soybeans to corn in 2020, continuing a string of years since 2013, in which soybeans have […]