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5 Aug 2016
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst Concern over China's next move on the anti-dumping investigation against the U.S and weaker corn prices pushed DDG prices lower this week. The DTN average weekly spot price average fell $14 per ton since July 22 to $121 this week. Of the 36 Midwestern locations DTN collects spot prices from, all but one locati...
5 Aug 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In one of the flurry of report estimates leading up to next week's USDA crop production report, private analytical firm Informa Economics on Friday bumped up its forecasts for corn and soybean production. The forecasts for corn and soybeans are bearish, based on Informa's numbers, according to DT...
4 Aug 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Business and agricultural groups that have struggled in recent years to get congressional action on immigration reform are counting on 2017 being different once the embers of the 2016 presidential election begin to cool. Presidents from the American Farm Bureau Federation and Western Growers help...
4 Aug 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday that dairy producers enrolled in the 2016 Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) will get approximately $11.2 million in financial assistance. The narrowing margin between milk prices and the cost of feed triggered the pay...
4 Aug 2016
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser Management and ownership transitions involve a vast number of business activities. Care must be taken with daily operations, people management, family relationships, finance and accounting and taxes, agronomy, animal health and nutrition, commodity or livestock marketing, government programs and vendor re...