Entries for October 2015
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2 Oct 2015
DTN Midday Grain Comments 10/02 11:31 Grains Quiet at Midday Grain trade holding around unchanged at midday. By David Fiala DTN Contributing Analyst General Comments The U.S. stock markets are lower with the Dow futures down 80 points. The interest rate products are mixed. The dollar index is 60 points lower. Energies are lower with crude 0.60 lowe...
2 Oct 2015
DTN Midday Grain Comments 10/02 11:31 Grains Quiet at Midday Grain trade holding around unchanged at midday. By David Fiala DTN Contributing Analyst General Comments The U.S. stock markets are lower with the Dow futures down 80 points. The interest rate products are mixed. The dollar index is 60 points lower. Energies are lower with crude 0.60 lowe...
2 Oct 2015
Cotton AWP/LDP 10/02 10:52 Next week's LDP (POP) rate will be based on this week's five day average AWP, plus or minus any change in the adjustment factor or any use of the Secretary's discretionary authority. The following table shows how this week's "A" index prices may affect next week's Marketing Loan Gain. Crnt Forwrd Trans Count Count 5 Low 5...
2 Oct 2015
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) -- Whole-farm income insurance has long been the stepchild of federal crop insurance plans, attracting only about 1,000 policies nationwide, or 0.1% of all policies sold last season. But pressure on farmers to economize and recent enhancements designed to appeal to specialty crop a...
2 Oct 2015
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Private analytical firm Informa Economics estimates that farmers will produce 13.56 billion bushels of corn with a national average yield of 168.4 bushels per acre. That's 24 million bushels lower than USDA's September estimate. The average yield is 0.9 bpa higher. "The new estimate expects the plan...