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12 Oct 2023
A larger-than-expected cut in both corn and soybean yield and production, and lower ending stocks than traders had anticipated, along with a bullish world soybean stocks number on the October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, sent beans skyward on Thursday. Wheat and corn, which were initially lower following the mostly...
12 Oct 2023
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:02 a.m. CDT on Thursday, Oct. 12, and updated again at 11:04 a.m., 11:07 a.m., 11:13 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. It was last updated with additional information at 11:30 a.m. CDT on Thursday, Oct. 12. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Thursday slightly lowered U.S. crop production for corn and soybeans and brou...
12 Oct 2023
LIME SPRINGS, Iowa (DTN) -- Amy Brass and her husband raise cattle, hogs and corn near Rochester, Minnesota. She wants to know how smaller farmers such as herself can compete against larger companies that offer benefits such as health care. "It is incredibly difficult to find people who want to make agriculture their career," Brass told DTN. "We ar...
11 Oct 2023
LIME SPRINGS, Iowa (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday criticized efforts in Congress to cut USDA's budget, adding he expects lawmakers will be forced to pass an extension of the current farm bill or face potential "havoc" for farmers. Vilsack and USDA Rural Development staff held an event in the northeastern rural Iowa town of Li...
11 Oct 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continued to be evenly split the first week of October 2023 with half lower and half higher compared to last month, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for four of the eight major fertilizers were higher than last month while the other four were lower. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5%...