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20 Sep 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst If you want to talk about corn crop estimates this fall -- as many do -- we can go on and on about USDA's estimate of 15.09 billion bushels based on a yield of 174.4 bushels per acre. And we can also point out that this record crop is supposed to result in 2.38 billion bushels of ending stocks in 2016-17 which, if true,...
20 Sep 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- Since Aug. 17, DTN View From the Cab farmer Jim Hoover of Newport, Pennsylvania, has seen only a half inch of rain on his fields, but casual observers couldn't tell it from his soybean yields. "I am really amazed at how well the soybeans are doing in spite of the amount of rain they'v...
20 Sep 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should not be regulating neonicotinoid seed treatments in the same way it regulates other pesticide applications, the agency and a list of agriculture companies and interest groups told a federal court Friday. The agency filed a motion for summary judgement in ...
19 Sep 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- "The only time of year farmers want a drought is during harvest" is a well-known saying that holds true every autumn. Harvest weather this fall looks to be warmer and perhaps wetter in some Corn Belt locations, according to meteorologists on a recent North Central U.S. Monthly Climate and Drought Summa...
19 Sep 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Are you sure the data your yield monitor is recording are accurate? Ron LeMay, CEO of the farm data analytics company FarmLink, learned a hard lesson on this seven years ago. "We started collecting yield data with state-of-the-art technology at the time," he recalled. "But as we examined...