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1 Apr 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst All winter long, there has been a lot of talk about how new-crop grain prices favored soybean acres this spring, and the bearish-leaning nervousness expressed in this week's soybean trade was palpable. Friday's estimate from USDA that a record-high 89.5 million acres of soybeans would be planted in 2017 was not a shock, ...
1 Apr 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst The DTN average dried distillers grains, or DDG, spot price was unchanged from one week ago, at $92, for the week ended March 30. Of the 39 locations from which DTN collects spot prices, five bids were $5 higher, one bid was $5 lower and the balance of the prices were unchanged. The value of DDG relative to corn for...
31 Mar 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff ReporterandBy Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As Southern Plains ranchers scramble to pick up the pieces from wildfires that charred more than 1 million acres and left death and destruction in their wake, farm communities across the country have been coming to the rescue. Farmers and ranchers in southwest Kansas ...
30 Mar 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- As expected, the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday voted to send President Donald Trump's nomination of Sonny Perdue as Agriculture secretary to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation. The vote occurred off the Senate floor in the midst of floor votes. Floor action on ...
30 Mar 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices were still mostly higher the third week of March 2017, but this climb higher appears to be slowing, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. And, for the first time in five weeks, not all of the fertilizers had higher prices. Seven of the eight major fertilizers were...