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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...
13 Feb 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- "We have to do better." That was the challenge issued from Scott Senseman, a weed scientist and the 2018 president of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA), to the hundreds of weed scientists and members of the ag industry gathered in New Orleans this week for the group's annual meetin...
13 Feb 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor CUIABA, Brazil (DTN) -- While corn remains the major safrinha crop for Brazilian farmers, more cotton acreage is being planted in Mato Grosso this spring, as well. Over the past two years, cotton planting has increased by nearly one-third for the safrinha (second crop) in Mato Grosso. The Institute for Mato Gro...
13 Feb 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst Much of last week in DTN's newsroom was spent preparing for USDA's reports on Friday. Ever since USDA closed the lockup room in Washington, D.C., last year, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report day has taken on an extra layer of anxiety as a whole village of staff plans and works behind the s...