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25 Jul 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- When crop scouts hit the road next week for the Wheat Quality Council's annual Hard Spring Wheat and Durum Tour, they'll take plenty of water, said tour organizer and council president Dave Green. It's a pity they can't take enough for the wheat crop. After a week of temperatures in the...
25 Jul 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst After the central Midwest experienced its highest temperatures of the year last week, it was not a big surprise that USDA's good-to-excellent crop ratings fell from 64% to 62% for corn and from 61% to 57% for soybeans in Monday afternoon's Crop Progress report. While conditions in the Dakotas remain grim, poor-to-very p...
24 Jul 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Defying its name once again, southern corn rust has invaded Midwestern cornfields earlier than ever -- and this time, it arrived in time to do economic damage. "This is the earliest I've ever seen it -- and that's the third year in a row that I've said that," said Kansas State Universit...
24 Jul 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will not take up a bill that would have allowed for E15 sales year-round before the August recess, the committee decided Thursday evening. Several media outlets had reported that the committee would consider the bill next week. Growth Energy C...
24 Jul 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor BISMARCK, N.D. (DTN) -- Scattered thundershowers across North Dakota on Wednesday brought a slight respite to the region's drought, but farmers and ranchers say some crops are already lost and it would take months of rainfall to rebuild pastures. Dryland corn from central South Dakota up through North Dakota no...