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30 Jun 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- As combines roll across the Great Plains, wheat growers are reporting some eye-popping yields, but the 2016 winter wheat harvest isn't quite perfect, agronomists, farmers and elevators told DTN. "Yields are better than anyone's ever seen," said Mike Schmidt, the grain and operations man...
30 Jun 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- USDA boosted corn acres above pre-report expectations to 94.15 million acres, up 7% from last year. Soybean acres also rose to 83.69 million acres, up 1% from last year. Quarterly grain stock estimates also blew past pre-report estimates, with USDA pegging corn stocks at 4.722 billion bushel...
30 Jun 2016
Editor's Note: Each year the Kansas City Board of Trade (now part of the CME Group), the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers provide updates of the Kansas wheat harvest. Today's update is the sixteenth report of the 2016 harvest. Jay Armstrong, an Atchison County farmer, reported tha...
30 Jun 2016
Editor's Note: Each year the Kansas City Board of Trade (now part of the CME Group), the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers provide updates of the Kansas wheat harvest. Today's update is the sixteenth report of the 2016 harvest. Jay Armstrong, an Atchison County farmer, reported tha...
30 Jun 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- In a letter sent by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., to Senate leaders Wednesday, a group of 29 Republican senators made a push to bring the Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA, to the floor of the Senate before the July 1 recess. On the Senate floor Wednesday, Inhofe asked senators to begin submitti...