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23 Aug 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Thanks to hot and dry weather earlier this summer, the seasonal high in December corn came later than usual this year when prices peaked at $4.17 1/4 on July 11. Since then, it has been all downhill for December corn. And, after prices broke a new low for 2017 on Aug. 10, it seems fair to say that corn's usual bearish sea...
22 Aug 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst As the U.S. spring wheat harvest nears the halfway point, producers from around the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains are reporting a wide range of yields, protein levels and grain quality issues. For this week's column, I talked to several farmers, elevator managers and grain merchandisers to get their observatio...
22 Aug 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Donna Funk, a principal for K-Coe Isom out of Kansas, had a tough task last week at the American Coalition for Ethanol annual meeting trying to explain the status of tax reform and the impact on ethanol producers. Funk was challenged somewhat because there's no legislation to actually point to -...
22 Aug 2017
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Crop conditions were mostly stable last week with corn condition unchanged from the previous week and soybean condition up just 1 percentage point in the good-to-excellent category, according to USDA's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. USDA estimated that 62% of corn was in good-to-excellent condition as of Su...
21 Aug 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Like a tardy burglar who sneaks in just before dawn, the redbanded stink bug is robbing Southern soybean growers of yield in the final weeks of a hard-fought crop. "This is the most damaging stink bug out there," warned Louisiana State University entomologist Jeff Davis. Louisiana produc...