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1 Oct 2019
By Dana MantiniDTN Senior Analyst USDA's Sept. 1 Grain Stocks and Small Grain Summary reports turned out to be a big surprise relative to expectations on both corn and soybeans. Corn ending stocks on Sept. 1 were a much lower than expected 2.11 billion bushels (bb) compared to the average trade guess of 2.428 bb and last year's 2.140 bb. Soybean st...
1 Oct 2019
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:01 a.m. CST. It was last updated at 11:52 a.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Monday reported quarterly stocks on September 1 for corn at 2.11 billion bushels and soybeans at 911 million bushels, both coming in lower than the average pre-report estimate by traders. Monday's Grain Stocks report was...
30 Sep 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers with prevented planting claims on a projected 19.6 million acres will receive a "top-up" payment on their claims from insurance providers starting in mid-October. USDA announced Thursday that all farmers with 2019 prevented planted claims will receive a bonus payment. Prevented planting in...
30 Sep 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The long-awaited 2019 harvest season is slowly getting underway, and it promises to be a long, memorable effort for Midwest farmers. "Corn harvest is going to be a strange animal this year," noted Nebraska farmer Kenny Reinke. "It's going to be really spread out due to planting dates." ...
30 Sep 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Ten days ago, Siouxland Energy Cooperative in Sioux Center, Iowa, announced it was idling its 90-million-gallon ethanol plant. The company cited lost ethanol demand from the most recent round of 31 small-refinery exemptions (SRE) to the Renewable Fuel Standard as the reason, the final straw in what ha...