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15 Feb 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter ORLANDO (DTN) -- As the EPA races the clock to complete a rule allowing year-round E15 sales ahead of the summer driving season, if the rule isn't done by June 1, the agency may have to resort to a plan B, USDA's second in command told reporters on Wednesday. Following a speech to the ethanol industry at the Nationa...
15 Feb 2019
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This ancient proverb may not exactly be the key to wealth and fame, but who among us has not found it to be the perfect ticket in avoiding unnecessary controversy and tension. To all but the most stubborn defenders of absolutes, it's an invaluable tool of cooperation and...
14 Feb 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor TANGARA, Brazil (DTN) -- A tour bus full of Americans bounces like a carnival ride traveling downhill, coming off a plateau on a narrow clay, unsurfaced and seemingly unmaintained road in the middle of a steady downpour while maneuvering around semi-trucks likely loaded with soybeans going the opposite direction...
14 Feb 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter ORLANDO (DTN) -- Ethanol margins continue to be depressed at the start of 2019, as evidenced by the losses DTN's hypothetical ethanol plant continues to experience. The ethanol industry as a whole is looking and waiting for any kind of good market news. Pavel Molchanov, senior vice president and equity research anal...
14 Feb 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst "There are only 8 cents of carry out to the May futures contract; how am I supposed to go to my banker and justify putting up new grain bins just to get another 8 cents per bushel? That math doesn't work out!" This question came up at a recent market outlook meeting, and the economic instincts behind the quest...