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12 Jun 2024
The USDA June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report was expected to show higher wheat production on reports of solid yields and test weight in the early Texas and Oklahoma hard winter wheat harvests -- and that is just what we got. The expectation of that had sent wheat prices reeling for the ninth time in the past 11 days f...
12 Jun 2024
By DTN Staff This article was originally published at 11:04 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, June 12. It was last updated with additional information at 11:26 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, June 12. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA largely held pat on its June supply and demand numbers despite expectations that there would be lower corn ending stocks and lower production in S...
12 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for all but one of the eight major fertilizers were lower than last month in the first week of June 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. But for the first time in four weeks, no fertilizer saw a significant price move, which DTN designates as anything 5% or more. Prices for seven of the eight major fertil...
11 Jun 2024
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., the ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, on Tuesday released a farm bill framework that is similar to the GOP-written farm bill that the House Agriculture Committee passed, but with fewer policy or funding details. At a news briefing, Boozman said the Senate Republican committee staff ha...
11 Jun 2024
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Certain dates live in infamy. For some soybean growers, one of those dates may become June 12, 2024. That's the cutoff date for over-the-top (OTT) application of dicamba herbicides for post-emergence weed control in soybeans in five states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota and the southern half of Minnesota. This l...