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27 Jun 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn, soybean and wheat inspections were bullish again this week in this week's export inspections report, according to DTN Analyst Todd Hultman. Corn weekly export inspections were 438.0 mb (965,608 mt) for the week ending Thursday, June 22. This is below 57.1 mb for the same week a year ago. Inspections f...
27 Jun 2017
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent BEIJING (DTN) -- There are very diverse survey reports in China recently, showing the disagreement of different organizations in corn crop acreage, but most of the reports showed that Chinese farmers may have cut more corn acreage. With summer second-crop planting still underway, industry analysts peg China's corn ...
27 Jun 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst Last week, the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and others responded to the Surface Transportation Board's request for comments on improving procedures, saying that the nature of the SAC standard the board uses is the single greatest source of delay in processing SAC cases. It's been over two years since t...
26 Jun 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers aren't certain if they would fare better under the health care bill in the U.S. Senate, but they are looking for relief from a steady rise in premiums and wider spread of deductibles they've seen over the past several years. Matt Stalzer, who farms corn and soybeans with his family near ...
26 Jun 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The winter wheat harvest will be a lot shorter than usual this year for Kent Eddy. The western Kansas farmer estimates he will only harvest 60% of his wheat crop where he farms near the town of Syracuse. The culprit? Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), which spread across the western thi...