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29 Sep 2016
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst Solid arguments could be made for corn and soybean quarterly stocks numbers to be bullish, bearish or neutral when released by USDA. USDA will release its latest Quarterly Grain Stocks and Small Grains Summary reports at 11 a.m. CDT Friday. QUARTERLY STOCKS Let's change things up a bit and start by looking at so...
28 Sep 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Because the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, receives federal funding, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is launching an inquiry into the National Institutes of Health's support for the group that has made several controversial proclamations about agricultura...
28 Sep 2016
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Right now, a soybean is being harvested that will win a cruise through one of the world's greatest engineering marvels -- the Panama Canal. After commingling with all the other soybeans from its field and its region, it may go in one of any number of directions. Forty-four percent of this year's soybeans will ...
28 Sep 2016
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- Some Grain Belt analysts question USDA's latest 2016 farm income estimates as overly optimistic. They doubt growers were able to shed as much in input costs this season as USDA's revised August estimates indicated. Kansas State University economist Allen Featherstone made tha...
28 Sep 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst While corn and soybean prices languish under the weight of this fall's anticipated record harvests, there has been one grain-related contract that has traded higher the past eight weeks. Not only is January soybean oil up 8% since the end of July, but spot soybean oil is within two cents of its highest price in two years....